A 2-year-old boy suffered serious head injuries when he fell from a moving vehicle in northern Habersham County.
According to state troopers, the child fell from a Toyota Tacoma driven by 37-year-old Sarah Ernst. They identified the passengers in the vehicle as Elias and Amundsen Ernst. GSP did not specify the name of the injured child but says paramedics airlifted him to Scottish Rite Medical Center in Atlanta with serious head injuries.
Troopers from Georgia State Patrol Post 7 in Toccoa responded to the scene on Vandiver Mountain Road at Low Gap Road shortly after 5 p.m. on Friday, May 20. The Habersham County Sheriff’s Office asked the State Patrol to assist in its investigation. The state patrol’s Specialized Collision Reconstruction Team is also investigating the incident.
