The use of seatbelts was credited in helping to keep three teens from being injured in a single-vehicle accident late Thursday afternoon just west of Salina.
Saline County Sheriff's Captain Jim Hughes said this morning that emergency responders were sent to the intersection of S. Halstead Road and W. Crawford Street at 5:25 p.m. Thursday for the report of a 2008 Scion TC that had hit a guardrail and gone over an embankment. Hughes said it appears that the 15-year-old Salina girl who was driving attempted to make a turn at too fast of a speed.
Neither the girl nor the 13-year-old and 14-year-old boys who were passengers were injured, Hughes said. All three were properly restrained by seatbelts, which helped to keep them from being injured or ejected, he said.