WJHS Student & Another Person Drown in Wreck

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7356105

This is right around the corner from us. Prayers to the families of those involved.

Gotta be extra careful driving through standing water. I drove through some on Lee Rd. this morning that I couldn't see until I was in it - still dark out and around a curve. The undercarriage of my car got a good bath. Fortunately I've got some new tires so I held the road real well.

 

I was just coming on here to post that.

Any idea who the child was? So sad, that's 2 in 2 weeks.

 

No idea who it was, yet. Names haven't been released until next of kin are notified. Looks like it happened on Steel Bridge right after you turn from Lee Rd. and go around the first curve.

Very sad indeed.

 

so very sad! prayers for the families!

 

My daughter travels right through there on the way to school.
I just sent her a text, she has known the girl since middle school. Not sure about the boy. I hate JoCo roads -

 

they've just updated the news article on the accident with one of the students names.

JOHNSTON COUNTY (WTVD) -- Two students from West Johnston High School drowned south of Clayton Monday when the car they were riding in landed in a creek and filled with water.

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It happened around 7 a.m. along Steel Bridge Road at Lee Road. That's south of Clayton.
The North Carolina Highway Patrol identified on of the dead as 16-year-old Alissa Chanette of Clayton.
It's unclear if she was the driver or passenger in the small Chevy sedan.
Divers later recovered the body of a male West Johnston student from the water. His name wasn't released pending notification of family.
Investigators said flood water appeared to have been over the road at the time of the crash - causing the car to lose control. It landed upside down in a creek beside the road.

 

The link that I posted now has her name listed, but the male occupant's name is still withheld. They were originally saying that he was not a student, but I see that's been changed as well.

 

So sad, such young lives come to a tragic end :neutral: many prayers for their family and friends

 

According to her facebook page she was pregnant . . . :cry:

 

I just read that as well, so very tragic!

 

that was not all that happened ......another west johnston boy named Thomas shot himself over his girlfriend..
according to my daughter.

Alissa was prego but her baby daddy was at school. I have no idea who the other person is.

 

Please gets facts straightened out before posting. This is going to be very hard for all those involved without a rumor mill.

 

Both of the student's names have been released on WTVD's website.

The fact that she was pregnant (not judging, just stating) came from her own facebook page.

 

maybe she wasn't talking about you

 

WRAL is reporting:

"The victims were identified as Christopher Paul Kosmos, 18, of Angier, and Alissa Chanette, 16, of Clayton."

 

her facebook page says that Chris Kosmos was her boyfriend.

for anyone without FaceBook access, this is from her page


"i love my chris!! forever and always!! nothings coming btn us i love you babe boy your the best!! new little baby on the way!!"

http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=1721622594

 

You're right but WTVD had him listed as Paul Kosmos. I deleted my other post since I don't know it to be fact now.

 

I only know what i was told.
sorry if it was heresay.. i know we are all used to the facts here...lol

 

My heart aches for these two young people. Maybe we can all learn something from this tragedy . . .experienced and the inexperienced drivers.

Perhaps JC Schools will consider a delay for flood warnings. We have a delay for just a dusting of snow so why not a delay when there is a flood warning???? And I am not saying this tragedy falls on the schools but that maybe it is something that should be considered. Prayers to the families and friends

 

:iagree: I think that is an excellent idea. If I had known the roads were that bad this morning I would have made my daughter wait a while before she left. She leaves before me so I had no idea (I slept through all of the storms so I didn't even know it had been raining).