Another Tragic Cheerleader Crash

Awhile back I had a report on a group of cheerleaders killed in a tragic accident in New York. It's happened again in Alabama:

HAYDEN, Ala. — An Alabama community is in mourning Friday after a late-night accident left three high-school cheerleaders dead and four others injured.

Sarah Casey, 16, Courtney Niceley, 17, and Whitney Bradford, 16, all of Warrior, Ala., died when the car they were riding in struck a tree and went over a 25-foot embankment, according Dorris Teague, a spokeswoman for the Alabama Department of Public Safety.

The driver, Sarah Elizabeth Agee, 17, as well as Brittany Lovejoy, 17, Ariel Nibblet, 17, and Alexandria Thomas, 16, were injured, Teague said.

All the teens attended Hayden High School and were on their way home from a cheerleading clinic at the time of the crash, authorities said. A Web site for the high school's athletics department expressed condolences to the families of the deceased Friday morning.

From past experience with teen crashes in Southern California, these things really hit the schools really hard.