A teenage passenger was killed and the driver, a fellow student, was hospitalized in intensive care after a car crashed in Termez district at midnight on Oct. 9, police said.
The road safety service of the Surkhandarya provincial Internal Affairs Department said the driver, a 10th-grade student at a school in Termez city, was traveling at high speed in the district when the car struck a lighting pole in the middle of the road.
A classmate was riding in the car and suffered serious injuries. The classmate died at the scene.
The driver was admitted to the hospital’s intensive care unit.
The driver, 16, was at the wheel of a Cobalt car belonging to their mother.
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