Rachel LaBatt, current Miss Maryland USA, suffered a spectacular accident yesterday in New Jersey and was miraculously uninjured.
The BMW car in which the young queen of 26 years old he was traveling crashed at an intersection in Glen Ridge, Essex County, New Jersey. After being uninjured, LaBatt told the New York Post that the collision happened while she was on her way to Newark Penn Station to catch a train home after participating in the catwalk. during Fashion Week in NYC.
“We were leaving the house and they hit us from the side. But everyone is fine, and we’re still going to catch our train home,” LaBatt said, standing in a corner next to a pink suitcase with its sparkly crown and “Miss Maryland” sash on top in a box. transparent.
“I think I was more nervous about walking down the catwalk than any injury at the moment,” she added with a smile, just a few feet from the crushed metal and glass debris left behind by the crash.
LaBatt said he was with his cameraman and a family friend who was driving at the time. Her car was struck by a local plumbing and heating truck at the corner of Ridgewood Avenue and Dodd Street, she detailed. The force of the crash completely spun the car the queen and model were in, but no one was injured.
LaBatt is also a flight test engineer for the Navy, where she works on the P-8 Poseidon, an aircraft used in anti-submarine warfare.