Woman, 3 kids hurt after crash on Hwy. 54 Sat.

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Woman, 3 kids hurt after crash on Hwy. 54 Sat.

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A Peachtree

City woman and three children were seriously injured Saturday morning

after their truck veered off the road and struck a utility pole on Ga.

Highway 54 West near Huiet Road.

According to

a report filed by the Fayette County Sheriff's Department, Jan A. King,

36, blacked out as she was driving a 1988 Dodge Ram truck east on Hwy.

54. The vehicle crossed the median and the westbound lanes of traffic

before striking a culvert on the opposite side of the road and then hitting

the utility pole.

One of the

children, John Cooper, 5, of Peachtree City, was taken to Egleston Children's

Hospital in Atlanta by a medical helicopter. Zack Cooper, 6, of Peachtree

City and John Howell, 5, of Senoia, were taken to Fayette Community Hospital

Two of the

children were restrained by one seat belt, according to police. King was

charged with a seat belt violation and driving without proof of insurance.

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