After car crashes into kids in stroller, family's medical bills total $400,000

KENNETH CITY, Fla. - It's been almost a month since a major crash shut down parts of US 19 in Pinellas Park. It left several cars damaged, along with a beat up stroller.

"The car hit me, Jaycea, and my grandpa," explained 3-year-old LJ Baker.

LJ remembers exactly what happened that day, how one car ran a red light, hitting another car, eventually slamming into his stroller.

He also likes to show off his scratches and bruises.

"Right there, right over here, right here," LJ said. "My scab's almost gone."

According to Pinellas Park Police,  Khatthaphone Chantharat of St. Petersburg was driving a blue Toyota northbound on US 19 when she ran a red light.

"The stroller flying through the air as a hockey puck," explained LJ's grandmother, Sharon Gonzalez.

10-month-old Jaycea, also in the stroller, broke both her legs.

Granddad Frank, who pushed the stroller out of the car's path and took the main blow, has nine broken ribs, a broken arm, and such severe head trauma, he doesn't even remember what happened.

"He doesn't know what's going on," said Christian Torres. "He's having a hard time with his memory."

Torres, the kids' mother and Frank's daughter, says her family's drowning in medical bills that started with about $600 for the ambulance, now totaling around $400,000.

All while the woman police say caused it all faces a minor civil citation for running a red light.

According to Torres, Chantharat's insurance company, Infinity Insurance, won't return phone calls. ABC Action News called the company today on her behalf. We were referred to an attorney and left a voicemail which has not been returned.

"She could have killed my grandchildren and Frank.  She could've killed them," Gonzalez said. "And she gets nothing but a ticket."

Family calls the whole ordeal a nightmare and a miracle.  If the kids weren't strapped in, they'd likely be dead.

Though LJ is now afraid of cars, his mom is more afraid of what will happen to her father without medical care he can't afford.

"Without him stepping in front of that car, and trying to push that stroller out of the way, my kids would not be here," Christina said.