Youth Killed at Site of Truck Crash in Florida
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POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — A teen-ager was killed in a crash at an intersection where a man had deliberately crashed his truck into a pole, police said.
Willie Wright, 46, drove his truck into a utility pole, stumbled out, stabbed himself in the chest behind a church nearby and then tried to drown himself in a baptismal pool, police said.
Utility workers were still clearing severed electric wires while police directed motorists around the area when Fernando Gersberg, 19, drove through the intersection. An officer yelled in vain for another motorist in a truck to stop, but the truck hit Gersberg’s car, killing the teen-ager.
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