Two-Time Diving Champ
Lifeless at 18
After Automobile Crash
Revealed
Two-time state diving champion Maisey O’Donnell was one of many three highschool seniors killed in a automobile crash this week … a tragedy that came about throughout their spring break trip in Florida.
The incident occurred on Monday evening on Freeway 98 close to Panama Metropolis … when an SUV carrying O’Donnell and three others crashed with a tractor-trailer that was making a U-turn within the median.
The pressure of the crash despatched the SUV over the median … and it lastly got here to a cease within the woods close by.
Two Harmony-Carlisle Excessive College college students, the driving force Jimmy McIntosh and passenger Hannah Wasserman, had been pronounced useless on the scene.
O’Donnell, 18, was transported to the Bay Medical Middle in vital situation … however later handed away. A fourth pupil stays in vital situation.
The driving force of the trailer was unhurt.
O’Donnell was a two-time Massachusetts state diving champion and earned a number of different awards, together with MVP and 1st Group All-State honors. She deliberate to attend Williams Faculty within the fall.
Boston Space Diving coach Joe Chirico referred to as her among the best within the nation.
“It is a tragedy,” Chirico mentioned.
“The little children regarded as much as her; the opposite divers regarded as much as her. It is a tragedy that any person on the high of their sport, going to the very best tutorial faculty, among the best divers within the nation, was minimize so brief.”
The Florida Freeway Patrol remains to be investigating the crash.
