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Teen killed when car flips in Effingham County
Posted: 06.28.2010 at 5:44 AM
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A teenager has died when the car she was riding in flipped over several times on a Effingham County road

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SPRINGFIELD, GA. (AP) -- A teenager has died when the car she was riding in flipped over several times on a Effingham County road.

Effingham County sheriff's spokesman David Ehsanipoor told The Savannah Morning News that , 17-year-old Whiney Newman of Springfield died in accident early Sunday morning.

A Springfield teenager was pronounced dead at the scene of a one-vehicle accident early this morning in Effingham County.

Ehsanipoor said Newman was a back seat passenger in the Chevrolet Tracker that flipped over several times after the driver lost control.

Ehsanipoor said two other teenage passengers, one male and one female, were transported to Memorial University Medical Center where they remain in critical condition

No information was available concerning the driver, an 18-year-old male.

(Copyright ©2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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