Joshua Pang, 14, killed, and driver Seok Won Andrew Sung, 17, and three people injured in single-car crash into tree off of McKee Road in Charlotte, North Carolina
1 dead, 4 injured in S. Charlotte crash
Police say a car with five occupants was westbound on McKee Road around 4 a.m. when it left the road and hit a tree in front of McKee Road Elementary School.
The impact destroyed the car and uprooted the tree.
CMPD: Speed a factor in wreck killing teen, injuring 4 other teens
The front-seat passenger, Joshua Pang, 14, who was wearing a seat belt, was killed.
Sung and three other passengers, who were also teens, were taken to Carolinas Medical Center.
Teen charged in wreck that killed 14-year-old
Sung was charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless driving to endanger.
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I am concerned about how this
Regarding the car accident with Andrew Sung and Joshua Pang: I am concerned about how this tragic accident came to be. It is my understanding that the kids were attending a church function, a movie night that was to have ended by 10pm? But these kids were leaving the church between 3 and 4 am. I was told it was a lock in they were coming from. If this is true, I am more than a bit curious, who was it that thought it was a good idea to send kids home at that hour, after having been up all night, on a road well known to be extremely dangerous?? Why is this child having to leave a hospital and rehab to be taken straight into police custody where charges are being filed against him and another family is grieving the loss of their child and no where in the public reports does it say the organization responsible for setting up this chain of events? Sleeping bags and breakfast make so much more sense to me than sending children off (5 of them in this particular car) on their own at that ridiculous hour. My heart aches for these families. I would appreciate having a better understanding as to why this happened at all.
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