Blacksburg teen killed in crash
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WSLS News Staff
Published: June 28, 2008
Blacksburg Police are investigating an early morning crash that left a teenage girl dead.
It happened just before 5:00 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of Route 460 and North Main Street in Blacksburg.
Police say 16-year-old Ayesha Kathleen Wintersdorff of Blacksburg was killed. Police say she ran off the right side of the road, down an embankment and flipped over. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police are investigating the cause of the crash but say a preliminary indication is speed was a factor in the crash.
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Posted by ( MADD ) on July 01, 2008 at 12:32 pm
In light of the tragic accident that took the life of a 16 year old girl this past Saturday morning
In Blacksburg
I feel compelled to write this......
I have from a private source that this accident was not caused by speeding alone, and that there was a passenger
that ran away. Now I am not saying this is what happened for sure, but a
rescue worker whom I know gave me this
information....
Not to long back my 18 year old daughter was arrested
for DUI.
When it got down to it I found out that a friends husband had
obtained the alcohol at a local gas station. He was underage,
but due to his build and looks the clerk didn’t ask for his ID.
These kids are getting alcohol to easy. Friends are buying
it for them. They don’t realize that these are not true friends.
Because if they were, they wouldn’t be doing this. Police need to investigate the local gas stations in the Blacksburg, Christiansburg area.
This accident could have
been prevented. PARENTS, ask
who, what, where and when...its very important. No matter if it makes you
uncool! A girl this age should have been home in bed.
My heart goes out to this young girls
family.
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Posted by ( prevent crashes ) on June 29, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I am very sorry for the loss of your friend. I know very well the pain of loosing a sibling in a crash, as do thousands of other people in America.
I aslo see first hand what these crashes do to a person and see on a daily basis the driving habits that cause this mayhem.
My “personel agenda” that you refered to is to prevent these devastating crashes. Not a day goes by that I do not try to do so - with very little help. I have spent thousands of dollars of my meager wages and dedicated my life to this cause.
All I can ask of you is to please talk to your friends about how they drive - peer influence can save lives.
Take good care, Terry
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Posted by ( B ) on June 28, 2008 at 11:58 pm
I knew Ayesha. She went to my school. I’m appalled by your readiness to push your own personal agenda onto her death. We probably share views about foreign oil based on the tone of your comment, but I can’t understand why you would bring it into a conversation about a person’s death in a car crash. It’s irreverent and irrelevant.
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Posted by ( prevent crashes ) on June 28, 2008 at 3:53 pm
How tragic and preventable this crash was! On average speed related crashes kill over a thousand people a month in America. (nhtsa) Kids die every day in these crashes.
The total cost of speeding is difficult to estimate. The health care costs of speed related crashes are enormous but how can one estimate the cost of devastated lives, or our dependency on foreign oil?
Use your peer influence to help your community, and your country www.callingallamericans.org
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