VIRGINIA BEACH
Police have determined that speed was the cause of the wreck that killed three Green Run High School seniors on Friday afternoon when the car they were in crossed the center line on a rural stretch of Salem Road and was hit by a van.
Virginia Beach’s fatal crash team investigators determined that the students, in a Volkswagen, were going too fast on the wet roadway and that’s how the driver lost control of the vehicle, a police news release said. The car then rotated into the eastbound lane and into the path of a full-size van in the 2700 block of Salem Road. The van struck the passenger’s side of the car.
All three people in the Volkswagen died at the scene of the crash. The van’s driver was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
All were wearing their seatbelts except for 18-year-old Matthew Kirkbride, the driver of the Volkswagen, the news release said. An earlier report indicated everyone involved in the crash was properly restrained.
No charges are pending against the driver of the van, police said.
The three students - Kirkbride, and 17-year-olds Joseph Jenkins, who was in the front seat, and Adam Ross Sherman, who was sitting in the back - had left the nearby Virginia Beach Technical and Career Education Center, where they took classes, six minutes earlier.
Funeral services for Kirkbride and Sherman have been scheduled for Tuesday.
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