Funds needed for baby boy fighting for life after pregnant woman killed in Birmingham crash
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Iderrika Patryce Finley, who also went by Iderrika Callens, died Monday in a rollover crash on Interstate 59/29 in Birmingham. Within hours, doctors delivered her baby, Dallas, in an emergency C-section. Not due until May 25, Dallas was born 18 inches long and weighing 5 pounds and 7 ½ ounces.
The 24-year-old pharmacy technician was on her way to work at CVS when she called her mother in a panic, saying that the brakes were failing on her Toyota 4Runner.
Iderrika Patryce Callens, 24, was killed in a rollover crash on Interstate 59/20 Monday, April 13, 2021. Her son, Dallas, was delivered in an emergency C-section. (Contributed)
Pregnant woman killed in Birmingham interstate crash ‘had a heart of gold’
Updated Apr 13, 2021;
It was a phone call that Lisa Finley will never forget, it was the last time she heard the voice of her cherished daughter.
Shortly before 10 a.m. Monday, Iderrika Finley called her mom, who was also her best friend, in a panic.
Iderrika was on the interstate on her way to work and the brakes were seemingly failing on her Toyota 4 Runner.
A CVS pharmacy technician who was to give birth next month, Iderrika was traveling northbound on Interstate 59/20 when she called her mother.
“She was telling me, ‘The truck won’t stop, the truck won’t stop. Help me, Mommy, help me,’’ Finley said. “Then I heard a scream and a crash, and I didn’t hear anything else.”
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Saltwater leaking into a stream from a massive saltwater spill from an underground pipeline on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation near Mandaree, North Dakota in 2014. Scientists say wastewater spills from oil development in western North Dakota are releasing toxins into soils and waterways. In a report published in 2016, Duke University researchers said they detected high levels of lead, ammonium and other contaminants in surface waters affected by wastewater spills in the Bakken oilfield region. (AP Photo/Tyler Bell, File)
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