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One teenager dead, another teen injured after crash in Phoenix

Aug 17, 2024, 10:23 PM | Updated: 10:25 pm

(Facebook File Photo/Phoenix Police Department)...

(Facebook File Photo/Phoenix Police Department)

(Facebook File Photo/Phoenix Police Department)

PHOENIX — Police are investigating a deadly crash that left a teenager dead, and another teen injured on a Phoenix street early on Saturday morning.

The fatal incident happened around 4:15 a.m. near the intersection of 59th Avenue and Encanto Boulevard.

After officers arrived at the scene, they found a 15-year-old girl and a teen boy trapped inside a vehicle that was on its side.

The girl has been identified as Anamarie Leach.

Both teenagers were removed from the vehicle and taken to a hospital by paramedics. Leach later died at the hospital, but the boy was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

Preliminary information suggests the car was moving at a high speed and going east on Encanto before Leach lost control of the car that went off the road and crashed into a chain-link fence and later into a large tree.

The investigation remains ongoing.

No additional details were released.

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One teenager dead, another teen injured after crash in Phoenix