By BILL JONES
Staff Writer
A mother and a child were flown to the Johnson City Medical Center from a three-vehicle accident on West Andrew Johnson Highway (U.S. 11E) at Pottertown Road on Friday afternoon.
Three other victims, including two other children, also were injured in the multi-vehicle wreck.
Two victims had been flown to the Johnson City Medical Center from the scene of the 3:39 p.m. accident, a Greene County 911 spokesman said late Friday afternoon.
Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper James Fillers, who investigated the multi-car accident, said it began when a southbound 1999 Ford Taurus driven by Anthony L. Taylor, 25, of Old Midway Road, Mosheim, attempted to turn left off U.S. 11E onto Pottertown Road.
Trooper Fillers said Taylor's car collided with a 2005 Cadillac Escalade sports utility vehicle driven by Stacy Allen, 26, of McKinney Chapel Road, Rogersville.
The Cadillac spun out of control, the trooper reported, and collided with a 1982 Ford Taurus being driven by Cynthia Hoke, 45, of Hartman Lane in Greeneville, which had been stopped at a Stop sign on Pottertown Road waiting to turn on to U.S. 11E.
With Allen in the Cadillac was Hayleigh Miner, her 5-year-old daughter.
Trooper Fillers said both Allen, who was not wearing a seat belt, and her daughter, who was in a child-safety seat, were thrown out of their car.
Allen and her daughter were both flown to Johnson City Medical Center in separate helicopters. Radio transmissions between Greene County 911 and Town of Mosheim firefighters at the accident scene indicated that both a Wings Air Rescue helicopter and a WellmontOne helicopter had been dispatched.
Johnson City Medical Center reported late Friday that both Allen and her daughter were in "stable condition."
Two other children, Jordan Lawson, seven years old, and Brock Allen, seven months old, who had been riding with Hoke -- also were injured although they had been restrained in child-safety seats, the trooper said.
Also injured was Taylor, driver of the Ford Taurus. He also was taken by ambulance to Takoma Regional Hospital.
Takoma declined Friday evening to say what the conditions of the two children and Taylor were or to even acknowledge they had been treated at the hospital, citing privacy concerns.
Trooper Fillers said Taylor has been charged with failing to yield the right-of-way, while Hoke has been charged with driving on a suspended license and not having auto insurance.
Also responding to the accident were units of the Town of Mosheim Fire Department, the Greeneville Emergency & Rescue Squad and Greene County-Greeneville Emergency Medical Services, along with a Midway Volunteer Fire Department medical first-response unit.