Seven Teens Die in Crash While Fleeing Police
From Times Wire Reports
A car trying to outrun police ran off a road in Troutman and crashed, killing all seven teenagers inside, the Highway Patrol said.
The driver was 15 years old, and the father of one of the victims said none of the teens had licenses and the group had been borrowing cars for joy rides.
The dead were identified as driver John Lindsey Myers, 15, and passengers David Wayne Summers, 14; Quentin Maurice Reed, 18; Antonio Miller, 13; Domnick Hurtt, 17; Erica Stevenson, 15; and Antoinette Griffin, 13, all from Statesville.
None was wearing a seat belt.
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