CEDARTOWN, Ga. – Police say a man driving a car with two children crashed, pulled the kids out of the vehicle and then ran away.
State patrol spokesman Gordy Wright said one of the children, a 6-year-old boy, was killed and a 5-year-old girl was seriously injured in the one-car wreck Sunday morning.
Wright said the man was driving a 2009 Pontiac G6 along Tallapoosa Highway near Cedartown Sunday morning when ithe car veered off the road, hit a ditch and overturned.
Wright said a witness told troopers the driver, 42-year-old Robert Nelson Wood, of Tallapoosa, pulled two children from the car and ran away.
The girl was being treated at T.C. Thompson Children’s Hospital at Erlanger in Chattanooga.