CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — A Cherokee County family of a 6-year-old severely injured in a car accident is thanking their community.

William Corona was involved in a serious car accident with his father earlier this month. After he was severely injured, he had to be air-lifted to a metro Atlanta hospital.

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Now, there’s a push to help the family pay for the mounting medical bills.

“It’s going to be a long road,” Alice Casagrane said.

It’s an extensive recovery for 6-year-old William Corona — from being on a ventilator undergoing multiple surgeries to being in rehab now.

His family says Corona was riding in a car with his father when the accident happened. His injuries were so severe that he had to be airlifted to the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston after suffering multiple skull, facial, and hip fractures.

“They are hoping he makes a full recovery, but it’s going to be a while,” Casagrane said.

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Casagrane, Director of Education at Primrose School of Sixes Road which Corona attends, says his classmates were troubled by the news.

“We just wanted to do what we can to help the family,” she said.

From there she says they wanted to do more than just send get -well cards.

“From there, the idea just grew where it turned into a bake sale,” Casagrane said.

Their bake sale raised more than $1,200 to help with Corona’s piling medical expenses his family now faces and the community has pulled together to raise $35,000 with this GoFundMe fundraiser.

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“When you have a child in that condition and you have two younger ones at home, it makes life difficult,. Primrose likes to go above and beyond,” Casagrane said.

The most recent numbers from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimate that more than 139,000 children were injured in traffic crashes in 2020.

Casagrane says she’s thankful William’s family has the Primrose community to fall back on in times of need.

“Our families, our children and our teachers’ are all used to doing things to helping other people, and just seemed like a natural step to help on of our family members get through a difficult time,” she said.

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