Police and paramedics were hoping a young child who struck the windshield of a car in an accident Thursday about 3:20 p.m. in south Beeville would be all right.

“She did very well,” Sgt. Roland Rodriguez of the Beeville Police Department said of the child who had struck the windshield.

Witnesses said the driver of the 1995 Buick Regal in which the child had been a front-seat passenger had rushed her to a nearby house where relatives lived.

Emergency workers from Angel Care Ambulance Service found the mother and children in the yard when they arrived at the scene and immediately began tending to the child with the head injury.

Investigating officer Patrolman Mark Cruz said he was told the two children in the Buick were wearing safety belts but a shattered windshield indicated that someone had gone over a deployed air bag on the passenger’s side of the vehicle and had struck the glass, headfirst.

Cruz said the driver of the 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe that collided with the Buick was southbound on St. Mary’s Street pulling out onto South Washington Street when the accident occurred.

The driver, 26-year-old Jane Marie Nichols of Beeville, said a car in front of her blocked her view of oncoming traffic and she didn’t see the Buick traveling north on South Washington Street.

Her vehicle struck the Buick on the right side. She and a small boy in her vehicle were uninjured.

Cruz reported that the Buick was driven by 25-year-old Jessica Lynn Garcia of Beeville.

The officer had no information on the names and ages of the children who were in the two vehicles as of press time Thursday evening.

The two children in the Buick were taken by ambulance to Christus Spohn Hospital Beeville.

The accident investigation was ongoing Thursday evening and Cruz did not say if any citations would be issued in connection with the incident.