The Columbus Dispatch

Driver killed in crash on Northeast Side ID’D

- By Jim Wilhelm jwilhelm@ dispatch.com

A woman who was killed while driving one of the vehicles in a fiery crash Saturday night that killed two others and injured three more on the Northeast Side was identified late Wednesday night in a release by the Columbus Police Accident Investigat­ion Unit.

Kumari Biswakarma, 40, of the Northeast Side, was the driver of the westbound Toyota Camry that collided with an eastbound Audi A6 at the intersecti­on of Morse and Sunbury roads just after 10 p.m. Saturday. She was pronounced dead at the scene along with 24-year-old Anju Biswakarma, one of her two daughters who were passengers in the car. The other daughter, 22-year-old Srijana Biswakarma, remains in critical condition at Mount Carmel East Hospital.

Jashawn Scott, 17, a junior wide receiver on the Gahanna Lincoln High School football team and a passenger in the Audi A6, died at Mount Carmel East. Gahanna-jefferson school officials announced his death Tuesday, though the Franklin County coroner’s office was not notified of his death until early Wednesday, police said.

The driver of the Audi, Kobie Stillwell, 18, and passenger Khaleb Warson, 17, were taken to Ohiohealth Grant Medical Center with injuries not considered life-threatenin­g, police said. The two also are Gahanna Lincoln students.

After colliding with the Camry, the Audi struck an unoccupied Toyota pickup truck in the left-turn lane on westbound Morse. Passersby got the three men out of the Audi just before it caught fire.

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