Police announced Monday that two teenage boys were killed last week when a speeding SUV crashed into a tractor-trailer in Newport News.
The crash occurred at 11:55 a.m. Friday in the 100 block of Yorktown Road, west of Jefferson Avenue near Lee Hall Mansion.
Newport News police spokeswoman Sarah Ketchum said in a Friday news release that the tractor-trailer was headed north on Yorktown Road when it collided with an SUV “traveling southbound at a high rate of speed.”
A 15-year-old boy in the SUV was pronounced dead at the scene, while a 16-year-old boy was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries and later died, Ketchum said. Both of the teens were from York County.
The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured. The crash is still under investigation.
