Mother, child injured in Kinsman auto accident Thursday

KINSMAN — A mother and her baby were seriously hurt in a single-car accident Thursday afternoon on state Route 7, the Ohio Highway Patrol said.

The driver, Brandi L. Cottrell, 21, of Campbell, was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown with serious injuries. Her 2-month-old baby, who was a passenger in the car, was then flown from St. Elizabeth to Akron Children’s Hospital in critical condition.

Cottrell was southbound, when she went off the right side of the road, hit a ditch and an embankment, went airborne and hit a tree in the 2:41 p.m. crash, the patrol said.