Citations have been issued against a father who crashed his car and seriously injured himself while trying to buckle in his 2-year-old son to avoid a ticket.The father, Travis Lee Melton, 44, suffered a serious leg injury when he lost control of his Saturn and plunged into a culvert. His son, Cody Melton, 2, suffered minor injuries while his other passenger, Mark A. Fults, 44, suffered lacerations. Melton has been charged with violation of the child restraint, due care and seatbelt laws.According to Highway Patrolman Gary Myers, Fults was heading southbound on Old Harrison Road on Harrison Ferry Mountain when the driver spotted Myers sitting by the road monitoring traffic.“When he saw me he tried to get the child strapped in,” Myers recalled, noting that was when the father lost control of his car.