Indiana Teens Seemingly Left in Brush To Die After Deadly Car Accident

This is a strange local story of a car accident that involved some teenagers in Gary Indiana where it appears the police and paramedics were grossly negligent in surveying and assessing the crash scene as two teens of four were missing from the immediate scene of the crash, and officers were alerted to this fact at the time by the driver who was injured and apparently couldn't explain were they may have been after the car flipped several times.

Remarkably they were only found by family members six hours later laying in the brush only a few feet away and dead by the time they were located.

Pretty hard for the cops to explain that away to the families of the dead teens I would think as they sure didn't search too hard to find these kids obviously, and then the medical examiner tries to clean it all up by declaring they were probably killed on impact anyway. Yeah, ok, how convenient..

On Thursday, Arthur Smith told CNN that his son and Green might still be alive if police had done their job. "We don't know that because they didn't do their job," he said. Hear the 911 recordings »

You listen to that tape and the cop states "if you saw this vehicle no one walked off of this scene" in response to the other cop stating "the other two occupants must have gotten out and walked off themselves" as he told the one on scene there were 4 occupants not just the 2 obvious ones that were asking them to find their friends.

Cops obviously thought that the two had run away from the scene due to the nature of the accident I'm betting to avoid police trouble.

That's simple to figure out and then they probably didn't look at all for the kids after making their judgment and if anything performed a quick look around immediately around the car, in spite of the cops own admission that the car flipped "15 times" which I find incredulous if not impossible, as there wasn't even enough room between the road and the spot of the car for it to have flipped that many times. Thats obvious by the pictures. They just didn't look period.

So by where they they were found, the injured two probably crawled fatally injured and disoriented likely a number of feet away from the scene unknowingly before losing consciousness and dying due to those variables .....to me proving they were alive at first.

All that however doesn't absolve the teens and the driver from the fact that they were possibly driving drunk (one is .05 and the other.09 so the .05 is legally intoxicated, the .09 isn't) and probably ignored by the cops for that reason sadly, as they the cops were cleaning up what they thought to be a simple one car drunk driving accident and the teens were somewhat discombobulated at the scene understandably. and therefore ignored when the missing teens were not quickly spotted.

Verdict: the drunk teens obviously screwed up terribly, and cops didn't do their job to the expected level of thoroughness, particularly when two victims could have possibly been saved had they been found promptly even by the injured friends, after all the other two survived the crash..

No drinking probably no accident. End of story before it starts sadly.

Tapes: Cops Were Told 2 Missing in Crash:

My Way News - "GARY, Ind. (AP) - Police radio recordings show officers were told that two teens were missing from a wrecked car, although the youths' bodies weren't found until a relative went to the site hours later. The Sept. 15 crash injured two teenagers and killed Brandon Smith and Dominique Green, both 18.

The injured teens were taken to a hospital, but officers said they found no sign of anyone else and had the wrecked vehicle towed away. Arthur Smith found the bodies of his son and Green in the nearby brush when he went to the site about six hours later. 'It took me all of five minutes to find the boys dead,' he said. Police have said the bodies were 60 feet or more from the car."

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Police Cmdr. Sam Roberts said last week that the two survivors told officers they might have dropped off their two friends earlier. Roberts declined to comment Wednesday on the dispatch recording or the investigation into how officers handled the scene.

However, the driver, Darius Moore, says he told officers "over and over" that his friends were missing after the car flipped and smashed through a guard rail before settling into a ditch.

"They left them out there to die, that's how I feel about it. I don't think nobody ever searched for them," Moore said last week while recovering at home. continued

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