Two people were seriously injured when a pickup truck left the roadway and crashed into a tree on Highway 9 near Enon Grove Church in Cedar Bluff just after 8:00am Friday. According to the Cedar Bluff Police Department accident report the mishap involved a 2001 Ford F-150 pickup being driven by 52 year old Jimmy Lee Grissom of Lindale, Georgia.

Both he and a passenger 31 year old Michael Waylon Grissom also of Lindale, Georgia had to be extricated from the vehicle and from there they were transported to a nearby landing zone where they were air-lifted for treatment, with at least one of those individuals being flown to Erlanger.

Those responding to the scene included Cedar Bluff Fire Department and Cedar Bluff Police the Cherokee County Rescue Squad, Cherokee EMS and Cherokee County EMA Officials.

The cause of that accident remains under investigation.