A Hyundai went off the Nice-Lucerne Cutoff near Nice, Calif., and crashed into a tree on Thursday, March 3, 2011, injuring the female driver and her child. Photo by Gary McAuley.

LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A crash early Thursday evening sent the driver of a car and a small child to regional hospitals.

The crash occurred at around 6:30 p.m. on the Nice-Lucerne Cutoff, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A Hyundai went off the road, through a barbed wire fence and collided with a tree, according to reports from the scene.

Northshore Fire and CHP were among the responders to the scene, where radio reports indicated that they found a 22-year-old woman and her 14-month-old child injured by the crash.

Officials reported that the woman was not wearing a seat belt and was complaining of pain to her chest after the crash threw her into the steering wheel.

Two REACH air ambulances were called, with one landing near Sentry Market and the other at Sutter Lakeside Hospital, where Northshore Fire said its ambulance was taking one of the patients.

Initial reports indicated the woman was flown to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital and the child, which appeared to have hit its head, was taken to UC Davis Medical Center.

Specifics about the collision's cause were not immediately available.

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