DOUGLAS COUNTY, GA — An investigation is underway after a teen died and two others were injured in a crash in metro Atlanta.
The Georgia State Patrol says 18-year-old Patience Price was a passenger in a car that lost control, went airborne and hit an embankment along Chapel Hill Road at Rosemont Drive.
“Preliminary findings indicate a Mercedes was traveling at a high rate of speed while negotiating a curve,” according to the Georgia State Patrol.
Price apparently was not wearing a seatbelt, and was thrown from the car, officials said. She was a senior at Chapel Hill High School.
A passenger in the back seat was also seriously injured and rushed to Grady Hospital. The driver has minor injuries.
Counselors are available at Chapel Hill High School, officials said.