Charges pending after child killed in Summerville crash

One child was killed and two were seriously injured in a two-vehicle accident on Taylor’s Ridge in Chattooga County Tuesday night. The crash happened just before 8:30p.m. May, 9. The Georgia State Patrol's Specialized Collision Reconstruction Team (SCRT) investigated the crash According to Sgt. Tommy Sturdivent with the Georgia State Patrol’s Specialized Collision Reconstruction Team, a 2006 Kia Spectra was traveling northbound and had crested Taylor’s Ridge, when it went off the right side of the road in the bad curve. The driver steered the vehicle back onto the roadway but crossed the center lane and rotated counterclockwise before striking a 1999 Nissan Quest van, which was in the outside lane going southbound. The Quest rotated and came to rest, but the Kia continued down the ridge, flipped twice, ejecting the two children. Chattoga County Coroner Earl Rainwater pronounced the one child dead on the scene, the other was airlifted to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga. The driver and the passengers in the Quest were all transported to Floyd Medical Center by Redmond EMS. All were treated and released except one, who was airlifted to Egleston Children’s Hospital in Atlanta with a skull fracture. GSP said the children in the Kia were not restrained. charges pending include vehicular homicide 1st degree, DUI, driving on suspended license, no insurance, no seatbelt x2, DUI child endangerment, serious injury by vehicle also had previous warrants for her arrest

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