QuikSand
10-26-2003, 11:36 PM
From time to time, you all have shared local stories that have had some broader interest. Regrettably, the story from my area that is (arguably) worth sharing is a very sad one.
Link to brief story (http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-md.sbriefs18oct18,0,3505658.story?coll=bal-local-headlines)
Boy, 16, missing 2 weeks, found dead in crashed car
GAMBRILLS - A 16-year-old boy was found dead in an overturned car less than a mile from his home, Anne Arundel police said yesterday.
Lawrence Neal Sann had apparently lost control of his mother's 1998 Isuzu Rodeo while driving on Waugh Chapel Road near the Church of the Holy Apostles. The car tumbled into a ravine, where a youth discovered it Thursday while playing nearby in the woods.
A police spokesman said the boy's mother, Cynthia Sann, had reported the car missing two weeks ago, telling police that her son had taken it without permission, The Capital in Annapolis reported yesterday. Sann was a student at Anne Arundel High School, the newspaper said.
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The accident site is very close to my home, and I've had occasion to drive by there a few times since the automobile was found. It conjures up some of the most ghastly images I can imagine.
What isn't entirely clear from the news report (that's the best I could find online) is that this kid apparently took the family truckster for a joyride, got into an accident on a fairly inhabited stretch of suburban roadway (35 mph area), and wasn't found for two weeks. His vehicle, it seems, drive right off the road, and landed in a small ravine only 20 or 30 feet off the road... but nobody saw the accident (or at least nobody reported it) and it took some time until some people attending an event at a nearby large church stumbled upon the wreck.
It's plenty tough to come to terms with a senseless loss of any young life, but these circumstances just seem awfully chilling. There have been young people holding candles and such near the roadway site almost around the clock, and my heart goes out to them.
I'm not sharing this for any particular purpose... I guess it's just a bizarre story. It just seems unimaginable that a car and passenger could seriously go missing after such an unspectacular event like driving off the side of a neighborhood street.
Link to brief story (http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-md.sbriefs18oct18,0,3505658.story?coll=bal-local-headlines)
Boy, 16, missing 2 weeks, found dead in crashed car
GAMBRILLS - A 16-year-old boy was found dead in an overturned car less than a mile from his home, Anne Arundel police said yesterday.
Lawrence Neal Sann had apparently lost control of his mother's 1998 Isuzu Rodeo while driving on Waugh Chapel Road near the Church of the Holy Apostles. The car tumbled into a ravine, where a youth discovered it Thursday while playing nearby in the woods.
A police spokesman said the boy's mother, Cynthia Sann, had reported the car missing two weeks ago, telling police that her son had taken it without permission, The Capital in Annapolis reported yesterday. Sann was a student at Anne Arundel High School, the newspaper said.
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The accident site is very close to my home, and I've had occasion to drive by there a few times since the automobile was found. It conjures up some of the most ghastly images I can imagine.
What isn't entirely clear from the news report (that's the best I could find online) is that this kid apparently took the family truckster for a joyride, got into an accident on a fairly inhabited stretch of suburban roadway (35 mph area), and wasn't found for two weeks. His vehicle, it seems, drive right off the road, and landed in a small ravine only 20 or 30 feet off the road... but nobody saw the accident (or at least nobody reported it) and it took some time until some people attending an event at a nearby large church stumbled upon the wreck.
It's plenty tough to come to terms with a senseless loss of any young life, but these circumstances just seem awfully chilling. There have been young people holding candles and such near the roadway site almost around the clock, and my heart goes out to them.
I'm not sharing this for any particular purpose... I guess it's just a bizarre story. It just seems unimaginable that a car and passenger could seriously go missing after such an unspectacular event like driving off the side of a neighborhood street.