Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Students injured en route to school

UPDATE: The victims were high school juniors Taylor Keister and Bryce Willis, and middle school student Jayden Willis. Bryce was driving. Keister and the younger Willis boy remain hospitalized.

Three Crittenden County students were injured in a single-vehicle accident on Ky. 297 south of Sheridan early this morning. The accident happened about 7:30 a.m., as the students were driving a private vehicle to school.

Names of the victims are not being released at this time. Two are high school students and one is a middle school student. One female high school student and a male middle school student were flown from the scene by PHI Air Ambulance to Evansville hospitals. The third victim was taken by ambulance to Crittenden Hospital.