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Teens identified in fatal car crash

Police say boy, 14, drove stolen car

- By Linda Trischitta And Tonya Alanez Staff writers CRASH, 2B

It was 3 a.m. The car was stolen. The driver was all of 14. And his six passengers were only 12 and 13.

The seven Pompano Beach kids crammed inside the Toyota Camry found themselves trapped when the car flipped and landed upside down on railroad tracks. It would take 10 rescue workers with special tools to cut them out.

Two girls died — one at the scene; another one at the hospital. Four suffered traumatic injuries. One had to be flown to the hospital by helicopter.

Authoritie­s on Monday identified the boy and six girls who departed on the fatal joyride that ended with the Camry crinkled and on its roof in the 1200 block of Northwest 15th Street, west of Interstate 95 and north of East Atlantic Boulevard.

Anacshia Johnson, 13, died at the scene and Chayanna Nesmith, 12, died at Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Broward Sheriff’s spokeswoma­n Keyla Concepcion said.

Chayanna’s sister, Teeanna Nesmith, 13, was hospitaliz­ed with a dislocated shoulder. The

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