Three college students from James Madison College died and two of their classmates have been critically injured when their automobile veered off a West Virginia street and struck a tree, authorities mentioned Friday.
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Three James Madison University students die in crash
The motive force and one other passenger have been flown to a hospital for therapy, whereas the opposite three passengers died on the scene. All have been 19-year-old males, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
The college recognized those that died as John “Luke” Fergusson, a sophomore from Richmond, majoring in media arts and design; Nicholas Troutman, a sophomore from Richmond, majoring in enterprise administration; and Joshua Mardis, a sophomore from Williamsburg, Va., majoring in communication research.
The sheriff’s workplace mentioned the scholars had visited a membership within the space earlier within the night. It appeared they have been driving southbound, again to the college, on the time of the crash.
“The loss our neighborhood has felt immediately is unthinkable,” JMU President Jonathan Alger and different college officers mentioned in a press release Friday afternoon. “We share our honest condolences to our college neighborhood as a complete, however particularly to the households, associates and others with shut connections to the scholars we’ve misplaced.
“In these moments of serious grief, it’s extra vital than ever to assist and take care of each other. Kindness, understanding and hope are issues all of us want to provide and obtain within the coming days and weeks forward.”
They added: “These three younger males will at all times be remembered as Dukes and can eternally be in our hearts.”
JMU is a public college in Harrisonburg, Va., within the Shenandoah Valley, with about 20,000 undergraduates and greater than 2,000 graduate college students.