EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — A local coroner says three teenagers who died last weekend when their car crashed into the Cottonwood River south of Emporia drowned.
Television station KSN says the Lyon County Sheriff’s office released the coroner's report on Wednesday. The wreck was discovered around 6:30 p.m. Saturday after injured 15-year-old Ashely Edwards was spotted walking down the road. The girl told deputies that she had been a passenger in a car that crashed.
Authorities pulled a 2005 Pontiac Grand Prix from the river with three people inside. The sheriff’s office said 17-year-old Chase Luby, 13-year-old Paxton Luby and 17-year-old Shelby Phoenix all died in the accident. The injured girl was taken to a hospital.
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LYON COUNTY — Three Kansas teens died in an accident Saturday in Lyon County.
Just before 6:30p.m. Saturday, police and sheriff's deputies responded to reports of an injured woman walking in the 800 Block of Road 147 five miles south of Emporia, according to the Lyon County Sheriff's Department.
When they arrived, they located 15-year-old Ashely Edwards who had been a passenger in a 2005 Pontiac Grand Prix that traveled off the road and into the Cottonwood River.
First responders found three others dead inside the car which was submerged in the river. The sheriff's department identified them as 17-year-0ld Chase Luby, 13-year-old Paxton Luby and 17-year-old Shelby Phoenix.
EMS transported Edwards to the hospital in Emporia. The cause of the accident remains under investigation, according to the sheriff's department.