Racing may have caused wreck
Clarke County High student misses serious injury by just feet
By Kathryn F. Pickard News Reporter

Dayton Horton's car (left) was struck by other (right).

A Clarke County High School student was injured in an accident on East Cobb Street

Asbury Road) Wednesday, Nov. 28.

Dayton Horton was pullling out of her driveway when two cars, traveling east, one behind another at a high rate of speed, approached.

The first vehicle missed Horton, but took out a section of fence on Royce McVay's nearby property. The second vehicle. driven by Daniel Powell, struck Horton's in the rear passenger door on her side.

Horton was taken to Grove Hill Memorial Hospital where she was treated and released.

The skid marks from the accident were 297 feet long. It has been speculated that the two vehicles were drag racing on the straight stretch of road but Grove Hill police have not completed the traffic report and would not comment on that allegation.

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