Car Strikes Tree, Catches Fire in Cartersville

CARTERSVILLE, GA -- A motorist was transported late Monday evening to an Atlanta hospital after the vehicle he was driving crashed into a tree and caught fire in Cartersville.

Crews with Bartow EMS, Bartow County Sheriff's Office and Cartersville police and fire responded to the single-vehicle crash on Mission Road around 11 p.m. May 8. They arrived on the scene to find a vehicle engulfed in flames.

A preliminary report suggests the vehicle left the roadway and hit a tree before catching fire, said Bartow EMS spokesperson Brad Cothran.

Cothran said a bystander was able to pull the male motorist from the vehicle. Once crews arrived, the male was conscious, but "confused and had fractures to both legs," he added. He was flown to Grady Memorial Hospital for treatment.

It wasn't the only crash Bartow EMS and other emergency personnel units responded to Monday evening. At around 9 p.m., a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 41/Joe Frank Harris Parkway at Zena Drive sent a 70-year-old male to Atlanta Medical Center for treatment.

Bartow EMS and Cartersville fire crews responded to the crash and found the man with an altered mental state and a fractured left hip. The vehicle was hit on its driver side door, with "approximately one foot of intrusion," Cothran added.

The motorist was subsequently extricated from the vehicle and flown to the hospital for treatment.

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