Two adults dead, seven children injured in Alabama ATV park crash

Two adults were killed and seven children injured Saturday afternoon in a collision between two off road vehicles at Indian Mountain ATV Park in Piedmont, Alabama, officials said. The crash occurred around 3:45 p.m. on Aug. 30 on a remote trail inside the privately owned park, Cherokee County authorities said.

According to Cherokee County and emergency officials, a side by side RZR carrying nine people collided with a second ATV that had two occupants. The larger vehicle overturned after the impact, traveled about 150 feet and struck a tree. The male driver of the RZR was ejected and pronounced dead at the scene, while an adult female passenger was airlifted to a Birmingham hospital and later died of her injuries, officials said. No one on the second ATV was injured.

Seven children who had been riding in the RZR were taken to hospitals. Multiple helicopters evacuated an adult woman and three children to trauma centers in Birmingham, while ambulances transported the other children to a hospital in Rome, Georgia, officials said. Children injured ranged in age from about 1 to 12 years old, authorities said. Local reports and family members described serious injuries, including a...