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Old 04-18-2004, 02:03 PM   #1
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One teen killed, two injured in crash while racing
By KEITH ROYSDON
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MUNCIE - A street-racing accident on a remote rural road Saturday afternoon left one Delaware County teenager dead and two others injured.

The teenager killed was a passenger in one of two cars that left a Niles Township road and rolled several times in a field.

Police - who were withholding names pending notification of families - said the drivers of the two cars were street-racing.

"It appeared to be that they were racing and lost control of both cars," said county police Cpl. Jason Walker.

The accident occurred around 4 p.m. Saturday on County Road 1200-N near County Road 800-E.

"We had a witness that said they were racing, a man on the road at the time who said both cars passed him at a high rate of speed," Walker said.

The passenger in one of the two cars was pronounced dead at the scene, said Delaware County Coroner James Clevenger.

The driver of that car was in stable condition at Ball Memorial Hospital late Saturday, Clevenger said. The driver of the other car was in critical condition, the coroner added.

Walker said early indications were that the vehicles crashed and left the road after "bumping" into each other during the race.

The cars rolled after hitting the ditch along the road, Walker said.

"Both these vehicles were traveling at an extremely high rate of speed when they left the road," Clevenger said. "It was just a tremendous crash."

A request for a Lifeline medical helicopter to transport a victim to an Indianapolis hospital was canceled at about 4:45 p.m.

Enhanced 911 radio dispatchers spent several anxious minutes trying to contact one of the Emergency Medical Service ambulances transporting one victim of the accident. Dispatchers initially asked police vehicles to look for and try to stop the ambulance so advanced life support personnel could come on board. After about 10 minutes, however, dispatchers re-established contact with the ambulance.
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