Alcohol was found in the crumpled Ford Focus driven by the dad of a now orphaned 2-month-old baby, the spokesman for the told Canton-Sixes Patch this afternoon.
"The driver's blood was taken and submitted to the Georgia Crime Lab," Lt. Jay Baker said. "It will likely be weeks or months before we get the results back. It's impossible to know for sure if he was drinking earlier in the day, but there was alcohol located in the vehicle."
That revelation came to light just hours after Baker announced that the , who suffered a "traumatic" brain injury as well as a broken leg, was "doing better."
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The child is in stable condition at .
"Physicians are monitoring the injury to his head," Baker said. "So far, his brain injury has not required any surgery."
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The boy's parents, Rick Dean Headen and Charlotte Ann Sedtal of Sour Lake, TX, died at the scene of the , just west of Fields Landing Drive.
The family was "apparently just passing through, on their way to another state," when their Ford Focus, which was headed eastbound, crossed the center line and struck a red Dodge pickup truck that was headed westbound. Headen, 48, was driving.
The driver and the passenger in the red Dodge truck were also injured. Both women were transported to in Marietta, the driver with possible fractures to her lower extremities and the passenger with neck and back pain.
Sedtal's sister, who lives in Virginia, is on her way to Georiga, Baker said this afternoon.
"She'll take temporary custody of the child when he's released from the hospital," Baker said.
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