Updated: 2/2/2006 1:10:33 PM
A Knoxville teen is dead and two others are hospitalized after a car accident Wednesday night.
The wreck happened just past 9:00 p.m. on Mynatt Road in the Halls area. The car left the road, went through one yard, crossed over West Garwood Circle and finally crashed into a tree in another yard.
The driver, 19-year-old Ted Ward, Jr. of Knoxville, died at the scene. The passengers, 18-year-old Dustin Hunter and 16-year-old Christopher Atkins, both of Corryton were taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center.
Atkins has been discharged from the hospital and Hunter remains hospitalized in serious condition.
Police say speeding played a role in the deadly accident, which came in the same 24 hour period as another accident in West Knoxville that killed a junior at Webb School.
