Seabeck, WA : Three teens killed in roll-over wreck in Seabeck on Sunday morning, January 11, 2015

Three teens returning from a party were killed in an early morning roll-over wreck in Seabeck, two girls and a man, marking five deaths on Kitsap roads in the past two weeks.

The driver, 17, survived with minor injuries and was booked for three counts of vehicular homicide, according to the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office.

The office identified the dead as Jenna M. Farley, 14, of Bremerton; Kassidy Miranda Clark, 16, of East Bremerton; and Luther James Wiggins-Stoudermire, 18, of East Bremerton.

Farley and Clark were sitting in the backseat of the car. Wiggins-Stoudermire was riding in the front.

A passerby called 911 at about 3:15 a.m. after finding a 1996 Toyota Corolla on its top in a ditch near the 6600 block of Seabeck Holly Road NW. Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue arrived about 15 minutes later. Paramedics declared the three youths dead at the scene. The driver was taken to Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, and then to Kitsap County Youth Services Center, where he was booked.

Investigators have been authorized to take a blood sample from the driver and are investigating speed and impairment as possible causes.

Neighbor Robert Knight awoke when the car rolled into the ditch near his home, taking out a part of a fence.

“It sounded like a tree hitting the house,” he said.

“I think they were coming too fast around that corner, that happens a lot here,” he said, noting that speeding is common on the road. He also said there are healthy numbers of wildlife in the area that are known to wander into the roadway, including bears and coyotes. The speed limit on the road – a relatively straight stretch between two curves – is 45 mph.

Knight had the grim duty of checking on the three youths to advise dispatchers of their condition, he said, and found that they were not breathing. He said two had been ejected from the car and the third was inside. None appeared to have been wearing seatbelts, he said.

He cautioned people to refrain from rushing to judgment on the cause of the wreck. He did not smell alcohol and the driver, who appeared to be in shock and was sobbing as he spoke with 911 dispatchers, did not appear intoxicated, Knight said.

It has been an inauspicious start to 2015, which now has four road fatalities, and five in the past two weeks. Last year, 16 people died on Kitsap roads, including a 46-year-old Port Orchard man killed Dec. 29 in a wreck on Lake Flora Road and a 22-year-old man who died in a crash on West Belfair Valley Road on New Year’s Day.

There were eight road deaths in the county in 2013, and 21 in 2012.

Marsha Masters, Target Zero manager for Kitsap’s Traffic Safety Task Force, was awake when word of the crash came over the radio early Sunday.

“My heart just dropped,” she said, “I thought, ‘Oh no.’”

As she went to church later in the morning, she caught herself thinking about the families of the teens receiving notification.

“It’s just heart breaking,” she said.

For parents, Masters said all they can do is keep talking to their kids about speed and impaired driving.

“At some point you have to put your trust in them that they will do the right thing,” Masters said, adding that all kids can play a role in reducing the number of preventable road deaths, but the ultimately its up to the person behind the wheel.

“I wish I had the magic answer,” she said.

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