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Date: 
Sunday, November 23, 2014

At around 7:45 p.m. Sunday 16-year-old Austin Ray Augustine of Wetumpka was driving a 2003 Infiniti G35 on Firetower Road in Wetumpka when it collided with a Dodge Charger patrol car driven by 50-year-old Deputy James Bart Hart. Augustine was killed, as were two16-year-old passengers in his vehicle: Dylan Adler Bieber and Hoyt Elliot Hardin, both of Wetumpka. Another passenger in the Infinity, Nicholas Benjamin of Eclectic was airlifted to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. Benjamin and Hart were wearing seatbelts but the others were not, according to troopers.