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2 Teenage Girls Die In Head-On Collision While Driver Was Broadcasting On Facebook Live

Darpan News Des IANS, 09 Dec, 2016 11:07 AM
  • 2 Teenage Girls Die In Head-On Collision While Driver Was Broadcasting On Facebook Live
A teenage motorist has broadcast her and her friend's death in a horrific fatal smash on Facebook live.
 
Brooke Miranda Hughes, 18, and her friend Chaniya Morrison-Toomey, 19, were pronounced dead at the scene.
 
The video reportedly shows the pair had been driving along Interstate 380 near Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, USA, shortly after midnight Tuesday.
 
Lights illuminated Hughes's face as she holds her cellphone up as the feed connected live to her Facebook friends.
 
Morrison-Toomey said: “Are you going live?”
 
The film then showed more lights flashing inside the car followed by the sounds of screeching tires before the film went black for seven minutes and the phone is picked up by someone attending the crash, The Times Tribune reports.
 
A tractor-trailer plowed into the back of their car.
 
The teens, who were declared dead at the scene, were thought to have been traveling very slowly in the right lane when the smash occurred, according to police.
 
The video was viewed more than 7,000 times after being posted to Hughes’ profile page, but not by her, the website said.
 
The Tribune said someone must push a button on the phone to post it to the web after a Facebook Live video begins.
 
Police will use the video in their investigation, Trooper Dave Peters said, but the clip would not be reportedly removed because it does not violate Facebook’s rules.
 
Police had initially reported the teens were driving with a flat tyre but the fiery wreck made it hard to to assess the condition of the vehicle, the website reported.
 
The driver of the truck, Michael Jay Parks of Tobyhanna, was not hurt.
 
Friend Samantha Piasecki, 17, of Scranton, watched the video hours after travelling in the car with the teens.
 
“It broke me,” Ms. Piasecki told the website.
 
She said she was thankful she got out of the car “but I feel like if I went, I could have stopped it somehow.
 
“They were both down-to-Earth people," she said.

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