15-year-old killed in accident with pick-up truck
A 15-year-old girl was killed in a major car accident in
On Sunday night at around 11 p.m., the teenage driver, who was not old enough to have a license, collided with a Ford F-150 truck. Investigators believe the driver of the truck was under the influence of alcohol and caused the accident by running a red light. The victim was Andrea Blanco.
The crash pushed Blanco’s vehicle into a second car that was stopped at a red light. The driver of that vehicle, 63-year-old Joyce Verstuyft, was injured and taken to University hospital.
Blanco was carrying three teenage passengers in her car at the time of the accident: April Davila, 13; Jose Trevino Jr., 14; and Karissa Trevino, 13.
The four people in Blanco’s car, as well as Gramajo, all had to be cut out of their wrecked vehicles.
Blanco died at
The driver of the truck, 29-year-old Hector Gramajo, was also injured. Gramajo has been charged with assault and intoxicated manslaughter. His bond has been set at $45,000.
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