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March 17, 2008

Teenager who died in Providence car crash is identified

PROVIDENCE -- The teenager killed when the car he was driving went off Jewett Street and struck a tree yesterday was Victor Fernandez of Providence, according to the police report.

Fernandez, 17, of 245 Mt. Pleasant Ave., was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:40 p.m. yesterday. Passenger Luis Coronado, 17, of 302 Lowell Ave., Providence, was admitted to Hasbro Children's Hospital.

The car, which the police said Fernandez was driving east on the two-lane Jewett Street shortly after 4:30 p.m., veered, climbed a curb and hit a tree. The collision forced the car to spin around and come to a stop in both lanes, facing northwest in front of 211/213 Jewett St., according to the report. A debris trail stretched about 70 feet east from the impact.

The police used an extrication device to remove Fernandez from the 1993 two-door Honda Civic.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

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