@independentreporter9495: This story hits close to home, y'all. This ATV Park is very close to where I live. My heart is absolutely broken for these seven babies and their families 💔🕊️🙏 FULL STORY ⬇️ A community in Rome, Georgia, is reeling after a father and mother died and their children were injured in an ATV accident over the Labor Day weekend. Family and friends identified the ones killed as Marcus Ragland and Ashley Hawkins, both from Rome. Ragland, 34, was a father of 10. Hawkins was a mother of three, two of whom she shared with Ragland. Seven children, all siblings, were hurt in the accident, which happened Saturday at the Indian Mountain ATV Park in Piedmont, Alabama, near the Alabama-Georgia border. According to the coroner’s office in Cherokee County, Alabama, an ATV with two adults and seven children was traveling at a high rate of speed when it collided with a second ATV. The ATV with nine passengers traveled 150 feet, rolled over and hit a tree. Officials said a man in the ATV was pronounced dead at the scene. A woman was airlifted to the hospital, where she later died. Both victims were from Rome, officials said. Four of the children were airlifted to various hospitals, and the other three were transported by ground. No one in the second ATV was injured, according to the coroner’s office. The seven children suffered varying injuries. One of the most severely injured is Ragland’s 13-year-old son, who has a skull fracture. Ragland’s 10-year-old daughter has a broken collar bone. His 2-year-old daughter has spleen injuries. Alabama state Sen. Andrew Jones said there are virtually no regulations at the ATV park, and Cherokee County Emergency Management Agency Director Shawn Rogers said that “information being provided is that no one was wearing a harness or restraint.” #indianmountainatvpark #fyp #news #Piedmont #breakingnews

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