Josseline Molina-Rivas,12, killed, Mario Arturo-Artiga, 36, seriously injured when their vehicle hits tree off of Broken Land Parkway in Columbia, Maryland
12-year-old driver killed in Columbia crash
County police said the car struck a tree around 2 a.m. Sunday on Broken Land Parkway near Cradlerock Way in the Columbia area.
Police ID 12-year-old driver who died after crashing car into tree in Howard Co.
Questions remain over why the girl was driving the vehicle and what the two were doing out early Sunday morning.
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