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Monday, December 30, 201317-year-old Hayleigh Borton is in critical condition after a car crash in Lowell Township Wednesday morning.
It happened in the 11000 block of 36th Street SE.
According to police, 18-year-old Alexandra Tremblay was driving a Ford Taurus west on 36th Street when she tried to avoid a pickup truck that had stopped on the road to help a driver who had gone into a ditch.
Tremblay was not injured, but the girl in the front passenger seat was seriously injured. She was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012Area:
Charlottesville, VAA man convicted of participating in a street race wreck that killed another man will spend a year in prison. Thomas Appleton received a 10-year sentence Wednesday in Albemarle Circuit Court. Judge Cheryl Higgins then suspended nine years of the sentence. Appleton also will lose his driver's license for a year. Higgins says he must then petition the court for the license's reinstatement. Prosecutors say Appleton and 18-year-old Samuel Taylor were racing on Sept. 5, 2012, when their vehicles collided. Taylor's car ran off the road, hit a stump, went airborne and crashed into a tree.