COLUMBUS – Two women were killed and two other people were seriously injured in a collision at a Northeast Side intersection Saturday night where passersby are credited with rescuing the occupants of one of the vehicles before it caught fire.
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An unidentified woman who was driving a Toyota Camry and one of her passengers were were dead at the scene at the intersection of Morse and Sunbury roads, while another female passenger and a teenager riding in another vehicle suffered life-threatening injuries, Sgt. Brooke Wilson of the Accident Investigation Unit said.
Police say Anju Biswakarma, 24, was riding in the Camry, which was westbound on Morse Road shortly after 10:00 p.m. when it collided with an eastbound Audi A6 driven by Kobie Stilwell, 18, of Gahanna. She and the driver of the Camry, whose identity had not been confirmed early Monday, were pronounced dead at the scene, Wilson said.
Biswakarma’s 22-year-old sister, Srijana, was taken to Mt. Carmel East Hospital with life-threatening injuries.
After the initial collision with the Camry, Wilson says the Audi hit an unoccupied Toyota Tacoma that was stopped in the left-turn lane from westbound Morse Road to southbound Sunbury Road.
Passersby assisted Stilwell and the two 17-year-old passengers in his car out of the Audi just before it caught fire, Wilson said. While Stilwell and Khaleb Watson escaped serious injury, JaShawn Scott was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
The crash is under investigation, Wilson said.