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Three Massachusetts high schoolers killed, one critically injured in Florida crash
The seniors from Concord-Carlisle High School were on spring break.
Three high school seniors from Massachusetts were killed in a car crash in Florida Monday night, and a fourth remains in critical condition, according to officials.
Superintendent Laurie Hunter, in a statement shared with Boston.com, said Concord-Carlisle High School seniors Jimmy McIntosh and Hannah Wasserman died in the crash.
“We offer our deep condolences to the families and friends of Hannah and Jimmy during this unimaginable time,” Hunter said. “Their loss will be deeply felt by our school community as well as by so many families in Carlisle and Concord. We are also keeping the other two students in our thoughts and wish them strength and a swift recovery.”
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In an update Tuesday afternoon, the district announced that high school senior Maisey O’Donnell died. O’Donnell’s family said her organs will be donated and “hopes that it will give meaning to these meaningless tragedies,” the statement said.
The fourth student in the vehicle is still in critical condition, the statement said.
The Concord-Carlisle High School students are off from school this week for spring break, according to the school’s calendar.
A Florida Highway Patrol report says the crash involved four 18-year-olds, including a man and three women. The group was traveling in an SUV west on U.S. Highway 98 about a mile west of South Watersound Parkway when they collided with a tractor-trailer that was making a U-turn in the paved median at about 9:28 p.m. on Monday.
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The report said that the SUV crossed the median and both eastbound lanes of the highway before coming to a rest in the woodline along the highway’s south side.
The report, which did not name the occupants, said the male driver and one of the women died at the scene. First responders took the other two to Bay Medical Center in critical condition.
The report says that the driver, McIntosh, was wearing a seat belt. It is unknown whether the three passengers were wearing them.
A 19-year-old man from DeFuniak Springs, Florida, was driving the tractor-trailer, and the passenger in the truck was a 23-year-old man from Panama City Beach, Florida, the report said. No one in the truck was hurt.
Hunter said grief counseling will be available for students and staff at the high school on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to noon and on Monday when students return from break.
The school also asked that “no action be taken to honor the students without the full consent of the families.”
“We are very appreciative of the outpouring of love during what is absolutely heartbreaking,” Hunter said. “We also appreciate the wish to feel purposeful and not helpless.”
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Editor’s note: This article has been edited to remove reference to a GoFundMe later reported as fraudulent.
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