BROOKSVILLE One got divided uninjured. The other mislaid his life.
Two teenagers were speeding corresponding shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday.
They were headed northbound along WPA Road in apart 1994 Honda Civics, according to a Florida Highway Patrol.
As both vehicles approached approaching traffic, Paul Snyder swerved from a left line to a right lane, troopers said.
His automobile clipped a front of Jonathon Parker's automobile and both rotated clockwise off a easterly side of a road, according to an collision report.
Parker, 18, died after his automobile crashed into a tree. Snyder's automobile struck a apart tree, though he was not injured. He got out of his automobile and fled before authorities arrived, troopers said.
Witnesses during a stage who knew Snyder supposing troopers with his name, according to FHP. Snyder, 19, was contacted and returned to a stage of a crash.
Troopers pronounced a teenagers were travel racing.
Parker and Snyder were tighten friends, according to friends who knew both of them.
The two-lane farming highway runs north and south and connects State Road 50 and Mondon Hill Road.
The 7400 retard of WPA Road still looked like an apparent pile-up stage Friday morning.
Some of a bellow was chipped off dual ash trees and shards of potion and pieces of plastic, steel and window tint were fibbing in a grass. Two FHP pile-up stage investigators were on palm looking during a tire outlines that stretched about 20 yards.
"People speed down here, though they don't race," pronounced Liza Marshall, who was visiting a crony who lives within walking stretch of where a pile-up took place.
She pronounced she was dumbfounded when she schooled what had happened.
Her daughter was friends with Parker. Marshall used to see him during her residence years earlier. She pronounced he was mild-mannered and had an seductiveness in mud bikes.
"He was a good kid," Marshall said.
Parker lived off Kibler Lane, a brief stretch from a pile-up site. A integrate pulled out of a drive during Parker's home only as a contributor had pulled in front of a residence Friday morning. They declined to comment.
A Hernando County School District central pronounced Parker attended Endeavor Academy before being homeschooled. He many recently was enrolled during Nature Coast Technical High School for adult preparation classes.
Assistant State Attorney Bill Catto, who prosecutes vehicular carnage cases in Hernando County, pronounced he was done wakeful of a accident.
The pile-up is being investigated by FHP and charges could presumably be filed after he reviews a case, he said.
Sgt. Andrew Batchelder, who oversees a trade section for a Hernando County Sheriff's Office, pronounced his group doesn't accept many complaints about drag racing.
"(Thursday's) occurrence is some-more of an removed incident," he said.
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