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December 18, 2006

Warwick teen killed in Friday crash ID'd

JOHNSTON – The police today identified the 17-year-old Warwick boy killed in a car crash Friday night as Anthony Gemma.

Gemma, of 143 Welfare Ave., died shortly after his car collided at 7:40 p.m. with a sport-utility vehicle that the police said crossed into his lane on Hartford Avenue.

The driver of the SUV, 29-year-old Dawn Simas of Coventry, was charged with possession of a controlled substance, operating a motor vehicle in possession of a controlled substance and refusing to submit to a chemical blood test, according to Johnston Deputy Chief Gary W. Maddocks Jr.

-- With reports from Journal staff writer Cynthia Needham

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