Bodycam video recorded in the aftermath of a car crash in Pike County, Ohio, that killed a 7-year-old girl on Oct. 16 showed the driver telling an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper that, while on her way to the store, she turned her head to “look at the girls, to talk to them because they were fighting” in the back seat of the vehicle.
Chasity Bliss, a 43-year-old from Piketon, not only had 7-year-old Raegan Arianna Lansing in the car “unrestrained” by a seatbelt, but was also had her 5-year-old daughter in the vehicle as a passenger, troopers said.
“On October 16th, 2023, at approximately 3:43 P.M., the Portsmouth Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol responded to a one-vehicle, single fatality crash near the 3000 block of Jasper Road, in Newton Township, Pike County, Ohio. Chasity D. Bliss, age 43, of Piketon, Ohio, was operating a 2005 Ford Focus that was traveling eastbound on Jasper Road with her two daughters in the back seat,” a press release on the incident detailed. “Mrs. Bliss drove off the left side of the roadway ramping over a driveway, striking a utility pole, and a tree before coming to final rest in a field.”
“As a result of the crash her seven-year-old daughter received fatal injuries and her five-year-old daughter was uninjured,” officials added. “The seven-year-old daughter was believed to be unrestrained at the time of the crash.”
