CLEVELAND, Ga. — A three-year-old child was seriously injured today when he was struck by a pickup truck in the parking lot of Cleveland Ingles store.

Cleveland Fire Chief Ricky Pruitt said the child’s mother was placing groceries in the back of her car when the pickup truck backed out of the opposite parking space and pinned the child between the truck and his mother’s car.

Paramedics arrived and performed CPR and a helicopter was called to airlift the child but due to his condition, he was transported instead by ambulance to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville.

The Georgia State Patrol is investigating. Fetch Your News will have more details when they become available.