Also according to the State Patrol:
Tanya M. Bowers will be charged with using a wireless device while driving – which she admitted to doing to troopers – failure to wear a seat beat and failure to use a child restraint. The girl was injured when she struck the back of the front passenger seat. A 4-year-old boy, also in the back seat, was not injured.
It was not immediately clear whether Bowers was the children’s mother; a spokeswoman for the State Patrol could not be reached Saturday. School Street is not far from Steilacoom Road in Lacey’s urbangrowth area.
Bowers was driving a 2002 Nissan Altima south when she left the road, drove onto the shoulder and crashed head-on into a parked 1999 Ford F-350 truck.
