Cheerleaders killed in headon crash.
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Cheerleaders killed in headon crash.
Fairport is like 15 minutes from my hometown...sucks. :sad:
I might actually know the sister of one of them...Congdon isn't a common name in western NY.
from cnn
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/27/tee....ap/index.html
I might actually know the sister of one of them...Congdon isn't a common name in western NY.
from cnn
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/27/tee....ap/index.html
Cheerleaders killed in fiery head-on crash
POSTED: 2:36 p.m. EDT, June 27, 2007
Story Highlights
• Five young women die in fiery crash
• They graduated from high school a week earlier
• Four of the women killed were cheerleaders
• Women's SUV crossed into oncoming traffic, collided with tractor-trailer
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FAIRPORT, New York (AP) -- A fiery head-on collision killed five women in a sport utility vehicle less than a week after they graduated from a high school in a Rochester suburb, the principal said Wednesday.
Their Chevrolet Trail Blazer had just passed a vehicle late Tuesday when it swerved back across the two-lane road into oncoming traffic and hit a tractor-trailer, the Ontario County Sheriff's Office said. Both vehicles caught fire.
The crash knocked down utility lines and cut phone service in the western half of Ontario County. The truck driver wasn't injured.
The victims were pronounced dead at the scene, deputies said.
Fairport High School Principal David Paddock said four of the women were members of the cheerleading squad -- Bailey Goodman, Hannah Congdon, Meredith McClure and Sara Monnat -- and he identified the fifth as Katie Shirley. All five graduated Thursday.
"It is with overwhelming sadness that I inform all of you that five of our children, all of whom just graduated from FHS last Thursday evening, lost their lives earlier tonight in a car accident," Paddock wrote in an e-mail sent to parents early Wednesday.
He said the victims had been heading to the Keuka Lake camp of a parent, and four friends were following in another car when the wreck occurred.
The crash happened along a 55-mph stretch just before the crest of a slight rise on a two-lane road in the rural town of East Bloomfield, a western Finger Lakes community about 20 miles southeast of Rochester.
The SUV landed on the side of the road and partially under the charred rig, which was being removed from the scene late Wednesday morning. A nearby maple tree was scorched by flames.
Dozens of students, teachers and parents, some hugging and weeping, gathered Wednesday morning on a hillside overlooking the school, located in an Erie Canal village of about 6,000, about 10 miles southeast of Rochester.
Marcus Merriman, an 18-year-old student who knew all the victims, described Hannah Congdon as "probably my best friend."
"She always had a perfect smile on her face. She said 'hi' to everyone in the halls. She was very caring and sympathetic," he said.
"Our hearts just explode and it just makes the grieving so hard because we build such a community for youth," said Debra Tandoi, a town official who works with young people in the schools. "We love them all.
POSTED: 2:36 p.m. EDT, June 27, 2007
Story Highlights
• Five young women die in fiery crash
• They graduated from high school a week earlier
• Four of the women killed were cheerleaders
• Women's SUV crossed into oncoming traffic, collided with tractor-trailer
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FAIRPORT, New York (AP) -- A fiery head-on collision killed five women in a sport utility vehicle less than a week after they graduated from a high school in a Rochester suburb, the principal said Wednesday.
Their Chevrolet Trail Blazer had just passed a vehicle late Tuesday when it swerved back across the two-lane road into oncoming traffic and hit a tractor-trailer, the Ontario County Sheriff's Office said. Both vehicles caught fire.
The crash knocked down utility lines and cut phone service in the western half of Ontario County. The truck driver wasn't injured.
The victims were pronounced dead at the scene, deputies said.
Fairport High School Principal David Paddock said four of the women were members of the cheerleading squad -- Bailey Goodman, Hannah Congdon, Meredith McClure and Sara Monnat -- and he identified the fifth as Katie Shirley. All five graduated Thursday.
"It is with overwhelming sadness that I inform all of you that five of our children, all of whom just graduated from FHS last Thursday evening, lost their lives earlier tonight in a car accident," Paddock wrote in an e-mail sent to parents early Wednesday.
He said the victims had been heading to the Keuka Lake camp of a parent, and four friends were following in another car when the wreck occurred.
The crash happened along a 55-mph stretch just before the crest of a slight rise on a two-lane road in the rural town of East Bloomfield, a western Finger Lakes community about 20 miles southeast of Rochester.
The SUV landed on the side of the road and partially under the charred rig, which was being removed from the scene late Wednesday morning. A nearby maple tree was scorched by flames.
Dozens of students, teachers and parents, some hugging and weeping, gathered Wednesday morning on a hillside overlooking the school, located in an Erie Canal village of about 6,000, about 10 miles southeast of Rochester.
Marcus Merriman, an 18-year-old student who knew all the victims, described Hannah Congdon as "probably my best friend."
"She always had a perfect smile on her face. She said 'hi' to everyone in the halls. She was very caring and sympathetic," he said.
"Our hearts just explode and it just makes the grieving so hard because we build such a community for youth," said Debra Tandoi, a town official who works with young people in the schools. "We love them all.
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Maybe this will teach parents to smack their daughters around like they should. I'm so sick of seeing all the little kiddies driving around in mommy's SUV everyday cutting people off and slamming on their brakes.
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if you take public transportation maybe youd be a more mellow person
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Maybe this will teach parents to smack their daughters around like they should. I'm so sick of seeing all the little kiddies driving around in mommy's SUV everyday cutting people off and slamming on their brakes. Thinking they are invincible because they are in an SUV.
h:I remember my best friends sister bought a Jeep Cherokee and her exact words were "I am going to have 4 wheel drive so I will be invincible in the snow."
First week of snow she ended up over a curb...
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