2 teens dead, 1 critical in nasty wreck

Teens crash in Old South End after stealing car

Updated: Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010, 10:05 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010, 2:21 PM EDT

TOLEDO, Ohio (WUPW) - Two teenagers were killed and a third teen was severely injured after a nasty wreck in a stolen car early Tuesday morning in Toledo's Old South End.

Witnesses say the accident was so bad, it split the Honda-model car into three parts.

The car was traveling southbound from downtown toward the south end in excess of 80 mph.

The Honda was reported stolen Monday evening between 6-10 p.m., from Aladdin's Eatery 4038 Talmadge Rd. in West Toledo, Toledo police said.

The accident took place at around 3:30 a.m. on Broadway Street near Field Avenue, between South and Western avenues.

Toledo police officers said a car with three people inside was traveling at a high rate of speed, lost control, hit a pole and broke into three sections.

One section of the Honda was found nearly a block from the impact.

All three teens were thrown from the car upon impact. Two teens - Markeon Atonious Chaney and Gregory Williams, both 19, were pronounced dead at the scene.

Sixteen-year-old Javaugn Jones remains in critical condition at Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.

"It almost sounded like a bomb. It was just so loud," said Cheryl Olsen, who lives a few houses from the deadly accident.

She was asleep and the sound she described, she thought it was a dream. But when Olsen was told there was an awful accident outside her house, she rushed to see the destruction.

"We was crying for them boys 'cause just to see them dead, lying on the ground, that was horrible," she said.

Robert Jaimes heard the crash, and quickly tried to help the 16-year-old.

"I went over to talk to him and he kept on saying to me, 'Can you fix my legs sir? Can you fix my legs?'," Jaimes said. "I said just hold on. The left leg, he was laying down. The bone was just stuck out. It was broken."

The intersection was closed for more than six hours after the crash. police said.

Investigators aren't sure if alcohol played a role in the accident.

The crash remains under investigation.

From: http://www.foxtoledo.com/dpp/news/local/toledo-local-two-dead-in-south-toledo-wreck