MINNESOTA: A new mom was struck and killed by a teen driver as she walked with her baby along a road in Oakdale. Stacey Jane Morgan, 33, was out for some exercise with her three-month-old daughter, Zoe, when an unnamed driver struck her from behind. The baby was ejected from the strolled but remained in her carseat, and she was unharmed. Morgan suffered head injuries and died later at the hospital. Police are investigating the crash. There is a story here in the Star-Tribune.
VERMONT: A 15-year-old boy died as a passenger in a car driven by a teenager who swerved across the road and ran down an embankment and into a tree. Joshua Fratus, 15, of Danby, died in the crash. Kristen Shortt, 17, was driving northbound on the road when she swerved across the southbound lanes and into the embankment. Joshua died at the scene, and Kristen was taken to the hospital.
IDAHO: A 16-year-old boy was charged with leaving the scene of a crash and misdemeanor manslaughter after a passenger in his car drowned when the car flipped into a canal. Alejandro Medina-Alvarez, 23, drowned in an irrigation canal after the car flipped and landed in the water, according to this story in the Idaho Statesman. Police have not identified the driver.
TEXAS: Moments after 19-year-old Rachel Ratcliff died in a collision with an 18-wheeler, her mother came upon the accident as she drove down the road. The story in the Beaumont Enterprise doesn't go into much detail about the cause of the accident, but has some lovely memorial information on Rachel.
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