Accident on 6th st

[Detector]

Yup. I wanted to wait until the news released the story before I posted the pictures. We had both Hutch news and KUPK here today and we sent them the pictures.

[Highwayman]

Detector, any idea which direction the car was going? Looks like if they were southbound at a high rate of speed they were fixing to have a big surprise at Cedar.

[Detector]

Well, I'm no crime scene investigator but I have looked it over pretty close. Looks to me as though it was south bound at a very high rate of speed when he locked up the brakes. Could have been because he knew Cedar posed a real problem at his speed. When the brakes locked he started to skid out of control. Heading toward the curb he tried to correct by steering to the left which sent him sideways because his brakes were still locked.

The skid marks show him hitting the curb almost completely sideways. Rear wheels in the grass and the front wheels still in the street. Looks as thought they were sideways when the car hit the light pole on the passenger side flipping the car over 1/2 turn on its top facing east.

As I said I believe it was possibly a race gone bad. First because I can't see them running so fast at the end of 6th just for fun. Competition yes, fun no. Second, a second car showed up from the east on Elm and picked up two kids. I believe the car was the one in the race and it went to the end of 6th, turned on Cedar and went around the block to Elm to check on the other car.

[Highwayman]

When the brakes locked he started to skid out of control.

The bricks will do that to you.

[Tee]

DODGE CITY - A one-car mishap shortly after midnight Monday left a Dodge City teen dead and police searching for the car's driver. Jesus Valenzuela, a 14-year-old student at Dodge City High School, was a passenger in the 1995 Chevy Cavalier that was southbound on Sixth Avenue when it left the roadway, crashed into a light pole at Elm Street and flipped onto its top.

Valenzuela died at the scene from massive head injuries, police said, while the driver of the vehicle, a 16-year-old male who authorities haven't named, fled and had not been located as of Monday afternoon.
"We have him identified and have been going by his residence, but have not had any luck in finding him," police Lt. Craig Mellecker said.

Three others in the vehicle also apparently fled, at least initially, but police later located them. Adrian Alvarez and Adrian Marruffo, both 15, were found walking back to the scene, said Mellecker, while Francisco Adame, 15, was found at his home.

Mellecker said the cause of the mishap, which occurred in a residential neighborhood, still is under investigation, aided by a team of Kansas Highway Patrol experts.

A neighbor on the scene immediately after the crash, Carla Adams, said she saw several beer cans around the vehicle, and Mellecker confirmed that "alcoholic beverage containers" were found in the car.
Marruffo, meanwhile, said only that the driver, traveling about 40 mph, somehow lost control.

"It just slipped and we crashed," Marruffo said from Western Plains Medical Complex, where he was treated for a broken arm and cuts to the head. He said the group, all of them Dodge City High School students, was headed to a party.

Neither Adame nor Alvarez required medical care, according to Mellecker.
Classes were out Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and Seth Eckelman, a Dodge City USD 443 spokesman, said officials hadn't determined if they would be taking any follow up action in school as a result.

I went by there Monday and noticed a couple adults and some young adults at the site of the accident-shaking their heads and visbly upset... perhaps family/friends of the deceased or other parties. How unfortunate this is for everyone involved.

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that cars don't just spontaneously slip up into yards and telephone poles. If so, why did the driver run and continues to hide?

[TheWizzard]

They left their dead friend behind?

With friends like those.. who needs enemys? Is the driver really hidding? or being hidden?

[Highwayman]

Let me see here. One kid 14, three 15 and one 16 were on their way to a party after midnight.

14, 15 and 16 on their way to a party after midnight?

And family/friends are shaking their heads and visibly upset afterward?

I somehow find myself visibly upset with the family/friends. What the Hell were they thinking about beforehand? I’m having a hard time with the idea that this was the first time these kids were out late.

[Lone Gunman]

Originally Posted by Highwayman

Let me see here. One kid 14, three 15 and one 16 were on their way to a party after midnight.

14, 15 and 16 on their way to a party after midnight?

And family/friends are shaking their heads and visibly upset afterward?

I somehow find myself visibly upset with the family/friends. What the Hell were they thinking about beforehand? I’m having a hard time with the idea that this was the first time these kids were out late.

You can't stick you ass in the fire and then cry when you get burned.

[lurker]

Mayhaps their parents all work the night shift in order to make enough dinero to live the American dream...

[dustinwadams5]

I'm still in shock that the driver hasn't at least turned himself in yet. I can understand (big maybe) being scared at the time and running, but I think that little voice in the back of my head (you know the one that's always arguing with the other voices in my head) would convince me to do the right thing at least for my friends sake for his memory. Unbelievable.