Teen charged with dangerous driving causing death in crash that killed two

A 17-year-old is charged with two counts of dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death in an August crash that killed two teens.

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Lucas Crump, 16, and Avery Warwick, 18, died in the single-vehicle crash at Cornell and Furnace roads near Otterville on Aug. 4.

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Seven youths who went to the same high school in Brantford had visited one of their grandparents in Otterville and were on their way home when the vehicle they were in crashed, Crump’s mother said. Five teenagers were injured.

The collision at Cornell and Furnace roads happened at the bottom of a steep hill with a sharp turn to the left. The vehicle went off the road at the edge of a ditch, hitting a line of cedar trees.

Crump was honors student in the French immersion program at North Park Collegiate in Brantford who would have started Grade 11 in September. He played house league soccer and hockey and was described by his hockey coach as a “happy-go-lucky kid.”

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Warwick had graduated from North Park and planned to attend Algonquin College in Ottawa in the fall. She was a manager at McDonald’s and played rugby, a family member said.

“She was a light to us all and can never be replaced,” the family member said.

In the wake of the crash, friends and family of the teens called for more signs at the intersection they described as dangerous.

The group started a petition demanding safety improvements and planned to speak at a Norwich town council meeting.

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