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7-year-old girl dies from crash injuries

Aubree Lei Kinney

COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — A 7-year-old girl who was severely injured in a crash in Coweta County in December has died, her family said.

"Aubree Lei Kinney gained her wings and flew to heaven at 11:43am this morning," according to a GoFundMe page post Friday. "Pray for her family as they grieve the loss of her beautiful soul."

Kinney was sitting behind her mother, 34-year-old Amber Hendrix, as she was driving on Smokey Road in Newnan, according to the Georgia State Patrol crash report. When Hendrix turned left onto Old Corinth Road, a minivan collided with Hendrix’s car.


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The girl was rushed to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, according to the GSP.

Doctors said Kinney had a damaged spinal cord, brain swelling and a collapsed lung, family friend Dawn Williams wrote on the GoFundMe page.

Since the collision, Kinney was mostly unresponsive, only moving her eyes at times.