Six Injured in Car Wreck near Woodbury

On the morning of Tuesday, February 23, 2009, four people, including three Cannon County High School students, were taken by helicopter to regional hospitals after sustaining injuries in a one-vehicle accident north of Woodbury.

Details of the accident are still unclear.  However, school officials and law enforcement have reported that Cindy Harris was driving her children in a Dodge pickup truck toward Woodbury on state Highway 53 near the Gassaway community when the accident occurred.  None of the children involved in the wreck have been identified.

"The driver lost control of the vehicle and it rolled several times," said Laura McPherson, Tennessee Highway Patrol spokeswoman. "Several were ejected. Four were transported by helicopter to a hospital as precautionary measures."

According to public information officer with the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Mike Browning, there were a total of six occupants in the vehicle, including one adult and five children.

Four of the accident victims were flown to hospitals, including Harris and three of the children.  Two were taken to Vanderbilt Medical Center and two others were flown to Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga.

Two other children involved in the car wreck were taken by ambulance to Stones River Hospital in Woodbury and have already been released after receiving treatment for their injuries.

Harris was reported as sustaining serious injuries, including broken bones.

Cannon County High School Principal Kim Parsley said that one of the students injured in the crash is an 11th-grader who had to have surgery for a head trauma.  Two of the brothers, a 9th-grader and 10th-grader were listed as being in stable condition at Vanderbilt.

The two youngest children in the car accident include a 2nd-grader and 5th-grader at Woodbury Grammar School.  Gerald Tidwell, the school’s principal said that a school secretary called in reports from the accident scene to the school.

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