In Vermont, deaths of 5 teens are a devastating blow
MORETOWN, Vt. — In the small, close-knit towns of Vermont, one untimely death devastates a town; five is unthinkable. But that is what this community is facing after five local teenagers were killed in a wrong-way driver crash Saturday night.
Nearly everyone in town seemed to have known the students; they were friends, relatives, neighbors, teammates.
Governor Peter Shumlin told a crowd of more than 1,000 gathered on the high school soccer field Monday night that it was the saddest day of his six years as governor.
“There are no words to express the extraordinary sadness of this moment,” Shumlin told the group that had assembled with less than a day’s notice at the school where four of the five were juniors. “But what we can rejoice in is that we have this extraordinary community.”
The five died Saturday night heading home from a concert in South Burlington, Vt.
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