The Georgia State Patrol late Tuesday released details of a crash in White County that killed two 16-year-old boys from Habersham. Dawson Zachery Ansley of Baldwin and Walter Avery Camargo of Cornelia died as a result of the wreck around 12:25 a.m. on March 8.
According to the state patrol, Camargo was driving a white Hyundai Sonata northbound on GA 384/Duncan Bridge Road at a high rate of speed when he ran off the road.
“The vehicle then began to rotate and with its passenger side struck a driveway culvert. The vehicle then vaulted before striking a second driveway culvert and overturning,” says Sgt. Michael Best of GSP Post 6 in Gainesville.
After overturning, the car traveled up an embankment and struck a wooden fence before coming to a rest in a ditch.
Shortly after midnight, prior to the crash, a White County Sheriff’s patrol deputy reported seeing a white vehicle traveling northbound on GA 384 at a high rate of speed. He said the vehicle ran a stop sign at the intersection with GA 254.
“The deputy activated his emergency lights in an attempt to catch up to the vehicle, but quickly resumed normal operations once he realized he had lost sight of the vehicle,” says White County Sheriff Rick Kelley.
That vehicle, says Kelley, is the same one later found wrecked on GA 384 north of Pless Road, some three miles from the intersection.
When deputies arrived at the crash site, Kelley says they found Camargo unresponsive behind the wheel of the car: He later died on his way to the hospital. Ansley was pronounced dead at the scene.
Both teens were former Habersham County school students but were no longer enrolled, says Habersham school superintendent Matthew Cooper. They had withdrawn to be homeschooled.
“We are saddened by this tragedy and will be praying for their families,” he says.
Sheriff Kelley, too, offered his condolences to the family, telling WRWH News, “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the victims.”
