Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services responded to a single vehicle accident this afternoon, at approximately 1:45, on Knox Bridge Highway, just west of Fire Station 13.

Firefighters arrived on the scene to find a burgundy Ford Explorer had left the highway and flipped several times before landing down an embankment. One of the passengers, a 30 year old female, was found lying on the ground outside the automobile. It is uncertain at this time if she was ejected or got out of the automobile on her own.  She was taken by ambulance to Kennestone Hospital in Marietta with possible fractured ribs and a possible back injury.

The driver, a 28 year old male, and another passenger, a 38 year old female, were both entrapped in the car and had to be extricated.  The driver was complaining of severe abdominal pains and was also taken to Kennestone.  The female passenger had a deep 8 inch laceration to her right leg and fractures to her right elbow and was life-flighted to Grady Hospital in Atlanta.

Both lanes of Highway 20 were blocked, but after the patients were removed and taken to area hospitals, one lane was opened for traffic.  The cause of the accident is being investigated by the Georgia State Patrol.

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