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A Massachusetts highschool neighborhood is in mourning.
Two-time state diving champion Maisey O’Donnell and her Harmony-Carlisle Excessive College classmates Jimmy McIntosh and Hannah Wasserman, have been killed in a automotive accident in Florida, just a bit over a month earlier than their commencement from the Boston space college. A fourth passenger, an 18-year-old lady, stays in essential situation.
The highschool seniors all 18, have been touring in an SUV on a freeway within the Florida Panhandle simply earlier than 9:30 p.m. April 21—the primary day of their college’s spring break—when their car collided with a tractor-trailer because it was performing a U-turn on a paved median, the Florida Freeway Patrol mentioned in an announcement to E! Information.
The automotive carrying the kids then traveled moved throughout the median and each eastbound lanes earlier than coming to a relaxation off the street, police mentioned, including that Jimmy, who was driving the automotive, and Hannah have been pronounced useless on the scene. Maisey and the unnamed fourth passenger have been transported to a hospital in essential situation.
The tractor-trailer’s driver and passenger, males aged 19 and 23, respectively, have been unhurt, police mentioned of their assertion.
Maisey, who had deliberate to attend Williams Faculty, acquired a slew of tributes from family and friends on social media.
“I don’t actually have phrases. I by no means thought today would come,” her youthful sister Emmy O’Donnell wrote on her Instagram April 22, alongside images of the 2. “I really like you greater than something on this world. You have been my sister however my greatest buddy. There was by no means a day that you just weren’t there for me when i wanted you most.”
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Following the tragedy, officers of their college district shared their grief.
“The Harmony-Carlisle Excessive College neighborhood has discovered of a tragic automotive accident that passed off in Florida on Monday night time, “Harmony-Carlisle Regional College District Superintendent Dr. Laurie Hunter mentioned in an announcement April 22, per Boston TV station WCVB. “Two seniors, Jimmy McIntosh and Hannah Wasserman, handed away on account of the accident.”
The assertion continued, “We provide our deep condolences to the households and buddies of Hannah and Jimmy throughout this unimaginable time. Their loss will likely be deeply felt by our college neighborhood in addition to by so many households in Carlisle and Harmony.”
The superintendent than shared an replace later that day. “We discovered {that a} third CCHS senior, Maisey O’Donnell, handed this afternoon,” she mentioned in a brand new assertion. “Maisey is within the organ donation program as her household hopes that it’ll give that means to those meaningless tragedies.”
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Maisey, who had deliberate to attend Williams Faculty, acquired a slew of tributes from family and friends on social media.
“I don’t actually have phrases. I by no means thought today would come,” her youthful sister Emmy O’Donnell wrote on her Instagram April 22, alongside images of the 2. “I really like you greater than something on this world. You have been my sister however my greatest buddy. There was by no means a day that you just weren’t there for me when i wanted you most.”
Describing Maisey as “so form, humorous and good,” she continued, “I bear in mind the instances when it felt like nothing else mattered and it was simply you and me laughing collectively. To those that knew you, you have been so particular. You have been so full of sunshine and potential. I don’t know what to do with out you. You have been my inspiration and my position mannequin in every part I did.”
Emmy mentioned she “will at all times bear in mind each drive to highschool, trip, meals and health club run” together with her sister. “You’ll at all times be so cherished by everybody,” she added. “I do know you’ll at all times be watching over me and I promise to make you proud. Relaxation straightforward.”
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