{"id":224258,"date":"2025-06-24T08:02:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=224258"},"modified":"2025-06-24T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:03:00","slug":"12-year-old-seriously-hurt-after-being-hit-on-jamerson-road-in-cobb-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=224258","title":{"rendered":"12-Year-Old Seriously Hurt After Being Hit on Jamerson Road in Cobb County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 12-year-old boy from Marietta was seriously hurt Monday afternoon after being struck by a Ford Transit van while crossing Jamerson Road near Turtle Rock Drive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\ude94 <strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong> Cobb County Police say the boy stepped off the sidewalk into the path of the westbound Ford driven by a 28-year-old from Ellenwood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The boy was rushed to WellStar Kennestone Hospital with severe injuries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The driver, was not injured.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udc6e <strong>Between the Lines:<\/strong> Police continue to investigate what caused the collision. They&#8217;re asking for anyone who saw what happened or has information to contact the STEP Unit at 770-499-3987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udfd8\ufe0f <strong>The Big Picture:<\/strong> Pedestrian safety remains a major concern in suburban areas like Cobb County.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year-old boy from Marietta was seriously hurt Monday afternoon after being struck by a Ford Transit van while crossing Jamerson Road near Turtle Rock Drive. \ud83d\ude94 What&#8217;s Happening: Cobb County Police say the boy stepped off the sidewalk into the path of the westbound Ford driven by a 28-year-old from Ellenwood. \ud83d\udc6e Between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"behind","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18045],"tags":[18312,11617],"class_list":["post-224258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-safety","tag-12-year-old","tag-pedestrian","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}