- Six-month-old Demir Rahming died in Staten Island after crash on Saturday
- Baby was unresponsive and family was rushing him to the hospital
- Ran a red light and their car was struck by a 2008 Jeep Liberty
A flu-stricken baby has died following a car crash as family members ran a red light while rushing to the hospital.
Six-month-old Demir Rahming died early on Saturday in Staten Island, New York, after his mother mother Flavia Earps checked and found him barely breathing with a flu infection around 2.30am, the New York Post reported.
Earps called her cousin who rushed over to give the mother and child a ride to Richmond University Medical Center.
The cousin blew through a red light at the corner of Forest Avenue and Broadway and was struck by a 2008 Jeep Liberty.
Six-month-old Demir Rahming died early on Saturday in Staten Island, New York after a car crash on the way to the hospital to treat his flu symptoms
Earps was sitting in the back seat with Demir and chatting on the phone with her husband Kasem Rahming at the time of the crash.
‘There was yelling and screaming so I waited and waited because I knew that if I hung up the phone I wouldn’t have been able to call back,’ he recalled to the Post.
‘She finally gets on the phone and says “We were in a car accident and the baby is in an ambulance,”‘ the husband said.
Paramedics rushed the child to Richmond University Medical Center but it was too late.
Both vehicles remained on scene and there were no other reported injuries.
It is unclear whether the child died from complications of the flu or injuries sustained in the crash but both parents think the flu is to blame.
‘The sickness was just too much for his little body,’ said Earps.
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