A car crash in Jefferson county, Tennessee has left a group of high school volleyball players hospitalized.
The players were travelling southbound on Interstate 81 in an SUV carrying 5 volleyball players, a parent, and an assistant coach from Broadfording Christian Academy in Hagerstown, Maryland. The group was travelling to Dayton, Tennessee for a National Association of Christian Athletes tournament, according to coach Joe Cartwright.
A Tennessee Highway Patrol report of the crash says that just before 4PM on Tuesday afternoon, a “dark-colored” SUV was traveling northbound in Jefferson county when it rear-ended a Kia Soul that had a 20-year old woman driving it and a 16-month old child inside. The Kia Soul was sent across the median and into southbound traffic, where it struck the SUV carrying the volleyball team.
The people in the Soul and the southbound volleyball SUV were all taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, including some transported by medical helicopter. As of posting, their conditions have not been released.
Update: school principal Pastor Bill Wyland said on Wednesday that all members of the vehicle are either out of the hospital or in stable conditions. He said that 3 had “significant injuries,” 2 had no injuries, and that 2 had “minor to moderate injuries.”
“Everyone’s stable,” Cartwright said in a phone interview Tuesday night with KnoxNews.com. “Probably the worst (injury) is one of our players has a head injury that she’s dealing with. … We’re just praising God that everyone is safe.”
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