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15-Year-Old's Speeding SUV Kills 12-Year-Old Girl
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John Del Signore
Published Dec 29, 2009
Modified Dec 29, 2009
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An underage driver doing 51 mph in a 30 mph zone on the Bruckner expressway last night flipped his family's GMC Envoy and killed his 12-year-old front seat passenger, police sources say. The victim, a Bronx girl identified as Kaitlin Booth, was rushed Jacobi Hospital, where she died. The name of the 15-year-old driver hasn't been released, but investigators believe the accident happened after the vehicle jumped a curb, tore through a chain-link fence, crashed into a tree stump, and flipped on its side.
The Post and the Daily News have conflicting reports. According to the News, a 15-year-old boy told cops on the scene that Kaitlin was walking on the sidewalk when the SUV mowed her down, and the boy also claimed that men ran from the vehicle after the crash. But sources tell the Post that the 15-year-old boy, who suffered facial injuries, was driving, with Booth as his passenger. No charges have been filed yet.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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