(La Porte, IN) - Criminal charges are now stemming from a violent single vehicle crash involving a mother and her three children in La Porte County.

 

Crystal Singleton, 39, is charged in La Porte Circuit Court with operating while intoxicated and two counts of neglect of a dependent.

 

According to court documents, Singleton on March 19 veered off U.S. 30 into a grassy median near 1200 South.  Her 2001 Chevy Tahoe returned to the pavement and overturned several times.

 

Police said Singleton and her 11 month old child were ejected from the vehicle.

 

The infant was found by witnesses restrained in a car seat that came to rest in the westbound lanes.  Miraculously, perhaps, the infant showed no apparent signs injury, police said.

 

Singleton of Merrillville had staples placed into her head to close her wounds.  Her two other children, ages 5 and 2, sustained just minor injuries, according to court documents.

 

Police said a test revealed methadone, amphetamine and methamphetamine were in Singleton’s blood stream.

 

She could face anywhere from a one to six year sentence on the most serious Level 5 felony charge of neglect of a dependent.