SALINE COUNTY – A Kansas woman and child were injured in an accident just before 8a.m. on Tuesday in Saline County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2015 Mazda passenger car driven by Irene Booth, 51, Ogden,

was westbound on Interstate 70 two miles east of the Ohio Street exit. The driver swerved to miss a deer and overcorrected. The vehicle entered the north ditch, hit a fence and a tree.

Booth and a passenger Angel Booth, 9, were transported to Salina Regional Medical Center.

They were both properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.