Three children hurt when truck runs into Cornelia house

CORNELIA - Three young Cornelia children were taken by ambulance Wednesday afternoon after a pickup truck ran into their house.

Trooper 1st Class Jesse Lewis said the children, ages 5, 7 and 9, suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the crash, which happened just before 5:15 p.m.

Lewis said a 2003 Ford Explorer Sport Trac, driven by a 16-year-old, was traveling west on Galloway Street and stopped at a stop sign at Hoyt Street.

The driver of the pickup truck failed to yield after stopping at the stop sign, pulling into the path of another vehicle, Lewis said.

That vehicle, a 1997 Ford Windstar van driven by 38-year-old Andres Martin of Cornelia, struck the truck in its left side.

After impact, both vehicles traveled off the west shoulder of Hoyt Street (toward Wayside Street), with the truck traveling into the house at 223 Galloway St., Lewis said.

The three children, who were inside the house at the time, were injured. They were taken by ambulance to Habersham Medical Center.

The driver of the truck also suffered minor injuries.

The driver of the van left the scene on foot and was picked up later by GSP, Lewis said.

Martin has been charged by GSP with driving without license; leaving the scene of an accident; and failure to report an accident with injuries, death or damage, Lewis said.

GSP acknowledgedthehelpofCorneliapoliceofficers.

A two-vehicle wreck in Cornelia late Wednesday afternoon sent one vehicle into a home on Galloway Street at Hoyt Street.

Emergency personnel watch as towing operators remove the truck from the house in Cornelia Wednesday afternoon.

The damaged home remained boarded up and cordoned off as unsafe Thursday.

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