WARREN, Ohio (AP) - A sport utility vehicle
carrying eight teenagers crashed into a guardrail Sunday morning and
landed in a pond in northeast Ohio, killing 6 of them and injuring the
others, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said.
The Honda Passport veered off the left side of a
road, hit a guardrail and overturned, Lt. Anne Ralston said.
Investigators say it came to rest in a pond just south of the city of
Warren, about 60 miles east of Cleveland near the Pennsylvania state
line.
Ralston didn't know where the teens were headed.
She didn't have any information to release on possible causes of or
factors in the crash.
2 of the teens, both 15, were brought to a hospital
"in full cardiac arrest," St. Joseph Health Center nursing supervisor
Julie Gill said, and were pronounced dead there. She said they were
treated for hypothermic drowning trauma, indicating they had been
submerged in cold water.
The two teen boys who survived were treated for bruising and other injuries and released, she said.
All those killed were ages 14 to 19, authorities said. Their names weren't released, while family members were being contacted.
The highway patrol received the first call on the
crash at 7:15 a.m., Ralston said. Divers helped the patrol, and local
police referred calls seeking information to the patrol.
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