WETUMPKA, Ala. – A car full of teenagers collided head-on with a police car, killing three teens and an Elmore County sheriff’s deputy, authorities said Monday.
A fourth teenager was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. The crash happened around 7:45 p.m. Sunday on a rural two-lane road about 15 miles north of Montgomery, Elmore County Sheriff Bill Franklin said.
Austin Ryan Augustine, 16, of Wetumpka, was driving a 2003 Infiniti G35. He was killed along with two 16-year-old passengers: Dylan Adler Bieber and Hoyt Elliot Hardin, also of Wetumpka.
The sole survivor was Nicholas Benjamin, 16, of Eclectic, another passenger in the Infiniti. Benjamin was flown to a hospital with injuries that troopers described as life-threatening.
The Infiniti collided with a Dodge Charger patrol car driven by Deputy James Bart Hart, 50. Benjamin and Hart were wearing seatbelts but the others were not, troopers said.