NORTH PORT
Two teenagers are dead after a crash late Wednesday night that sent their car into a pond off Sumter Boulevard in North Port.
According to the North Port Police Department, units responded to a report of a rollover accident in a pond on Sumter Boulevard North, north of Laurie Circle, around 10:20 p.m. An off-duty NPPD officer heard the crash from his home and entered the water with his car. Northport Fire Department, but their efforts to free the trapped passengers, the 17-year-old driver and his 16-year-old passenger, were unsuccessful.
A black 2010 Honda Accord was towed from the water and the teenagers were pronounced dead by NPFD at 10:52 p.m. The investigation revealed that the car entered a bend at high speed, lost traction and went down a hill before jumping off the bridge railing and flying headfirst into a pond.
The investigation continues.
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