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TEEN DIES IN EARLY MORNING TRAFFIC ACCIDENT
Sunday, November 6, 2005 1:30 AM CST
Services were pending Saturday for a local teenager killed in an early morning traffic accident just north of downtown.
Corey Marshall Swafford, 18, of Greenville, died when the car he was driving apparently became airborne and collided with a parked vehicle and a tree before landing upside down.
Services for Swafford were pending with Coker-Mathews Funeral Home.
Police reports and witness accounts indicate Swafford was driving a 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt northbound in the 1600 block of Johnson Street shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday when the vehicle struck a curb, left the roadway, hit a tree limb and then the right side of a 1994 Honda Civic parked in a driveway before the Cobalt landed upside down in the front yard of a vacant house.
Swafford was ejected from the vehicle. Hunt County Justice of the Peace Hershey Barnett pronounced Swafford dead at the scene of the accident.
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He was my friend. Words cannot describe the sense of loss and sadness that I feel. Please pray for his family and his friends, all of whom have been affected deeply by this tragedy. My mom went to high school with his parents. Funny how, in small towns, every one knows every one, all connected by possibly a single, tiny thread that, when cut without expectation, can break the circle, creating a gaping hole that cannot ever be filled the same way again. We can reattach ourselves, but no one is the same. Nothing is the same. It was as if the whole town was in mourning today, the day of his funeral.
What makes this story even worse is that he had been drinking and was high when he crashed.
That song, "Untitled" by Simple Plan, takes on a whole new meaning.
Again I ask, please pray for his friends and his family. If I feel this devestated, this shocked, when I had only known him a short time, and not the best, how must the people who grew up with him, who played in little league with him, graduated from junior high with him, gave birth to him...how are they feeling?
R.I.P. Corey Marshall Swafford
1987-2005
Sunday, November 6, 2005 1:30 AM CST
Services were pending Saturday for a local teenager killed in an early morning traffic accident just north of downtown.
Corey Marshall Swafford, 18, of Greenville, died when the car he was driving apparently became airborne and collided with a parked vehicle and a tree before landing upside down.
Services for Swafford were pending with Coker-Mathews Funeral Home.
Police reports and witness accounts indicate Swafford was driving a 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt northbound in the 1600 block of Johnson Street shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday when the vehicle struck a curb, left the roadway, hit a tree limb and then the right side of a 1994 Honda Civic parked in a driveway before the Cobalt landed upside down in the front yard of a vacant house.
Swafford was ejected from the vehicle. Hunt County Justice of the Peace Hershey Barnett pronounced Swafford dead at the scene of the accident.
***
He was my friend. Words cannot describe the sense of loss and sadness that I feel. Please pray for his family and his friends, all of whom have been affected deeply by this tragedy. My mom went to high school with his parents. Funny how, in small towns, every one knows every one, all connected by possibly a single, tiny thread that, when cut without expectation, can break the circle, creating a gaping hole that cannot ever be filled the same way again. We can reattach ourselves, but no one is the same. Nothing is the same. It was as if the whole town was in mourning today, the day of his funeral.
What makes this story even worse is that he had been drinking and was high when he crashed.
That song, "Untitled" by Simple Plan, takes on a whole new meaning.
Again I ask, please pray for his friends and his family. If I feel this devestated, this shocked, when I had only known him a short time, and not the best, how must the people who grew up with him, who played in little league with him, graduated from junior high with him, gave birth to him...how are they feeling?
R.I.P. Corey Marshall Swafford
1987-2005