A group of students from Center Ville High School were injured at 1:30 AM this morning while car surfing on Hill Crest Lane, in Centerville. The two 17-year-old girls, Lissa Smythe and Bridgid Murphy, were riding on the hood and trunk of the car, when 17-year-old driver, Jon Johnson took a hard turn at 40 miles per hour.
Smythe walked away from the scene of the accident. Murphy was taken away by ambulance with head and neck injuries. Johnson was not harmed in the accident. There have been no charges filed by the Smythe family or Murphy family against Johnson.
Lissa Smythe, riding on the hood of a Honda Civic, held on to the windshield wipers and was able to say on the car, she suffered minor wrist and leg injuries. Bridgid Murphy, who was riding on the trunk, was thrown off of the car and fell unconscious on the road. “I don’t know why she was on the trunk,” Smythe says, “ I mean, she had nothing to hold on to.”
There is still no word on Murphy’s current condition. She was taken to Center Ville Memorial Hospital and is in critical condition.
Smythe is very worried about her best friend’s condition and planed to visit Murphy in the hospital later today. Smythe says that it was Murphy’s idea to go car surfing, and claimed that they had car surfed many times before, and had seen other people car surf on YouTube.
According to Smythe it is a popular pastime for high school students. As Johnson sped up the girls yelled for him to slow down, but Johnson thought they were joking and kept going.
The teenagers had been to a party with other friends earlier that night. Smythe declined a comment about alcohol being at the party.
Smythe says she knew immediately when Murphy fell off the car and yelled at Johnson to stop. Stopping immediately, Johnson saw Murphy on the ground unconscious, and called 911. The ambulance showed up soon after. “It seemed to take forever, but the ambulance probably got there pretty quickly,” Smythe says.
The teenagers have are good friends who all attend the same high school. Murphy and Smythe have been best friends for years. They are on the same tennis and track teams at their high school.
Johnson and Murphy have been a close couple for a while, said by Smythe to be in love. “They were like Edward and Bella from Twilight”. Murphy and Johnson had planned to attend Ohio State at the end of their senior year in high school.
Smythe’s parents are very concerned for Murphy and her family, who are still coping with the possibility that Murphy might not make it.
Despite the accident, Smythe says that there is a good chance they will go car surfing again, depending on it Murphy lives or not. But for now, Smythe says she is still shaken up and is very worried about her friend.
-Kirsten Yocke
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