Four teens killed in Illinois car crash

 Posted on December 00,0000 in Car Accidents

Shortly after the news that six teens were killed in a car accident across the country, four more teens were killed in an Illinois accident. Their car had overturned into a creek in Wilmington, Ill.

The families of the teens reported them missing around midnight, according to Will County Sheriff Deputy Chief Ken Kaupas. “[I was] praying, begging, pleading, willing to trade,” said Melissa Robertson, crying and hoping that her niece, Micalah Sembach, was not one of those dead in the car being towed out of the creek.

Sembach’s family knew something was wrong by the evening; the teen made it home from school, dropped off her backpack, and left to hang out with friends. Her mother told her to be home by five. “That was it,” said Robertson. “Love you, Bye.’ Happy, normal ending of a conversation.” When she was 30 minutes late, the family called the police.

Before getting official word, family members hit the streets in search of Sembach and by the next morning, a parent contacted Robertson to tell her about the crashed car.

Around 7 a.m., students on a school bus saw the back wheel of a car sticking out of the water and when the dive team was sent in, the car was confirmed as one registered to a relative of one of the victims.

At 10 a.m., the vehicle had been removed, the coroner had arrived and a blue tarp was held up as the bodies were removed.

Wilmington’s tragedy is the third teen car accident within only a few days. Officials in Texas just announced that five teens were killed in a car accident after running a stop sign and colliding with a fuel tanker.

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