Students create memorial for 5 teens killed in crash

Associated Press

DUXBURY, Vt.

Students at a Vermont high school that lost four students in a fiery crash over the weekend set up a memorial and met with counselors Tuesday as classes resumed for the first time since police say a driver traveling the wrong way on an interstate slammed into the students’ car, killing five teens.

Throughout the day, students wrote loving notes to their friends, classmates and teammates killed in the crash and placed them on tables alongside flowers, photographs, athletic jerseys, and a signed soccer ball. Other Vermont schools sent flowers, food and posters with notes of support from students.

The four Harwood juniors and a girl who grew up with them but went to Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N.H, were killed early Sunday when the car they were riding in was hit by a wrong-way driver and burst into flames.

Police say Steven Bourgoin was driving a pickup truck that crashed into their vehicle, sending it up in flames. After a police officer who arrived on the scene tried to extinguish the fire, Bourgoin jumped into the officer’s cruiser and took off, state police said.