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2 young men die, 1 hurt in crash
Surviving victim: Driver was speeding
Updated: Wednesday, 24 Oct 2012, 10:00 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 24 Oct 2012, 10:00 AM EDT
PORTER TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) - Two of three young men died after their speeding vehicle crashed along a Cass County road.
Ross Gambill, 19, from Osceola, Ind. told police he and two of his friends were traveling east on Chapel Hill Street at a high rate of speed when the driver lost control of the vehicle.
The vehicle then struck a tree east of Baldwin Prairie Road in Porter Township around 9:14 p.m. Tuesday, police said in a news release.
The driver was identified as 19-year-old Gabriel Spencer-Forsyth from Tennessee.
A second passenger was identified as 20-year-old Kevin Shupert from Elkhart, Ind.
Spencer-Forsyth and Shupert died at the scene as a result of their injuries.
Gambill was transported to Memorial Hospital of South Bend.
Gambill and Shupert wore seat belts at the time of the crash, police said, but Spencer-Forsyth did not.
The accident remains under investigation at this time.
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