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5 Joyriders Die After Car Flies 200 Feet

Posted Jan 26, 08 6:50 PM CST in US 

(Newser) – Five young men were killed on a joyride in Florida last night when their speeding car careened off a private airstrip, flew 200 feet in the air, hit a large tree, and split in two. Three were thrown from the car and two were partly ejected, but all were pronounced dead on the scene, the Ocla Star-Banner reports.

Officials arrived at 3:45 a.m. to find the $80,000 BMW broken in half, local TV reported. They found one of the boys 100 feet from the wreckage. Based on the skid marks, police think the boys, all 18-20-year-old High School wrestlers, tried to stop, but hurtled off the 85-foot-high embankment at the runway’s end.

Sources Ocala Star-Banner, WESH 2

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Lieutenant Beaver Twist, right, with the Auxiliary Florida Highway Patrol examines the remains of a burned, gray 2008 BMW, at the accident scene at the end of the Greystone airstrip in Anthony, Fla.,...   (Associated Press)
Florida Highway Patrol Corporal Mark S. Weber, left, and Corporal Daniel A. Deweese, look over the remains of a burned, gray 2008 BMW, at the accident scene at the end of the Greystone airstrip in Anthony,...   (Associated Press)
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