Crime & Safety
Overturned Jeep Sends Pair to Hospital
The accident occurred at approximately 4:50 p.m. in Canton.
CORRECTION: Cherokee Fire and Emergency Services has confirmed that the 16-year-old girl in the overturned jeep was not the driver.
ORIGINAL STORY: Two young women are at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta after the Jeep they were in left the roadway and landed on its top on Friday afternoon.
According to a Cherokee Fire and Emergency Services press release, personnel from Cherokee Fire and the Canton Fire Department responded to Killian Road at the Brick Mill Road intersection in Canton at 4:50 p.m. Friday in response to an overturned black Jeep Cherokee.
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Both the 16-year-old female driver and one of her passengers, an 18-year-old-female, were taken to the hospital. According to the release, the driver may have suffered a head injury, and her passenger complained of back pain and suffered some cuts and bruises.
Three male passengers in the Jeep were unharmed.
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Investigators are currently working to determine the cause of the accident.
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