3 teens hurt when their car veers off road, hits trees

Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007

By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer Staff Writer

GRANITE FALLS - Three Granite Falls teenagers had to be cut from a mangled car Wednesday afternoon after their car slammed into two trees, authorities said.

Kenneth Tramble, 18, was driving a 1990 maroon Dodge Sprint east on Grace Chapel Road, near the intersection of Looper Road, shortly before 12:45 p.m. when the car veered off the road and hit the trees, said Trooper Myron Davis of the N.C. Highway Patrol.

Brittnay Chester, 17, who was sitting in the front, was seriously injured and taken by helicopter to Johnson City Medical Center in Tennessee. Tramble's 13-year-old brother, Seth, was sitting in the back seat, Davis said.

The Tramble boys were taken to Frye Regional Medical Center. Davis said all three teenagers were wearing seat belts. Their conditions were not available Wednesday evening.

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