CLANTON, Ala.-- Four Indiana high school students returning from a spring break trip and another man were killed in a three-vehicle crash in Alabama.
Cpl. Steve Smith with the Alabama State Troopers says the four teens were Matthew Riley Zimmer, Evan Weaver, Matthew Roe and Alexx Bauer. The 18-year-olds were from Angola, Ind. Twenty-one-year-old Niall McNellis of Troy, Ala., also died in the crash around 3 p.m. Saturday.
An initial investigation indicates McNellis was driving south on Interstate 65 just south of Clanton, Ala., when his vehicle crossed the median and hit the car driven by Zimmer head-on as the teens drove north.
Smith says several people in a third car suffered minor injuries.
It was unclear if bad weather that passed through the area contributed to the wreck.
