Child, 2, Hit by Car in Cartersville

Cartersville police say a 2-year-old child was hit by a car in front of a local home sometime Saturday afternoon.

The child was in the front yard of a residence in the area of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive when someone at the residence backed out of the driveway, striking the child and knocking the child under the car, Capt. Mark Camp said. 

"The child suffered a severe laceration to the head, but according to EMS is stable," Camp said about 5:20 p.m. "As a precaution, the child is being taken by air ambulance to Atlanta, most likely to Children's Hospital."

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