Tuesday, September 15, 2009

TENNESSEE: A 14-year-old girl died Tuesday after the car she was in hit a curb, flipped, and then hit two cars. Meredith A. Fox, 14, was in the front passenger seat when the crash occurred, and was declared dead at the scene, according to this report in the Commercial Appeal. Driver Philip Winston Miller, 17, was in stable condition Wednesday, and 13-year-old passenger Rachell Hyneman was in critical condition. Occupants in the two cars struck by Phillip's car were also in stable condition.

I believe this video was done for Meredith by a friend.

UPDATE: A story here says Winston was driving with a restricted license, and should not have had so many passengers in his car. There is video from the crash, and interviews with friends. Quote from the end of the piece: "Once you get more than one teenager in the car, the crash rate almost doubles."

FLORIDA: This is a hard crash to decipher from the news report. It appears a teenager driving a minivan crashed into a car making a left-hand turn. Three people died, including a young pregnant mom. Three people died in the Oldsmobile that was making the turn: Lucero Tijerno, 17, who was five months pregnant, and Layla Pinto-Tijerno, her nearly 11-month-old daughter, who were sitting in the back seat. Eduardo Lopez, 22, was a front-seat passenger. He was not wearing his seatbelt, and was pinned inside the car, and was declared dead at the scene. The Oldsmobile was driven by 21-year-old William Coe was thrown from the car, but survived.

The 18-year-old minivan driver, Claudia Aguirre-Castillo broke her leg. The other passengers in her car were fine.