3 Teens Killed in Indiana Crash Returning From Local Church Event

Three teens were killed and three others injured in an Indiana crash after attending a Future Farmers of America breakfast at a nearby church.

Indiana State Police said the two-vehicle crash occurred around 9:45 a.m. involving six students from South Ripley High School, at the intersection with a four-way intersection.

Students in two different pickup trucks both ran a stop sign approaching a four-way stop at a crossroad according to a preliminary investigation. Troopers from the Versailles post said the trucks were a 1999 Dodge Ram 3500 and 1996 Ford F-250 in a statement.

Three of the teenagers - 18-year-old Samantha Hanson passenger in the Dodge Ram, 17-year-old Timothy Bowman driver of the Ford F-250 and 18-year-old Jacob Vogel his passenger- died at the scene, and the others were taken to local hospitals, Indiana State Police Sgt. Noel Houze said.

All six teens participated in a Future Farmers of America breakfast at Hopewell Church just south of the crash scene. The students had the day off school for the event, but left the daylong event after serving breakfast.  Investigators are unsure why the teenagers left early.

"It's completely devastating to the people at the school," Superintendent Rob Moorhead said. After officials at the high school shared the news of fatal crash at the high school, which has about 370 students, gym.

"There has just been so much tragedy here," said Holton resident Lori McNeelan, one of dozens of people who packed a restaurant where Hanson had worked for an impromptu vigil.

The latest accident is the recent string of tragedies in the small town of Versailles, as various people had been involved in different accidents during the last year and a half.

"It is shocking enough when you hear that one student has died, but when you find out it's multiple deaths, it's just devastating," Cierra Goddard, 15, said.

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