Snapchat shows women drinking, singing in car before three killed in car crash, fourth critical
A series of Snapchat videos posted before three young women were killed in car crash shows them drinking from a bottle of vodka after spending several hours at a bar.
Bianca Herwig, Paige Smith and Brooke Molnar were all killed on Tuesday when the 4WD Smith was driving crashed into a power pole in the US city of Pittsburgh, the Tribune reports.
A fourth woman was seriously injured in the crash after the car veered off a highway, sheering the power pole and bringing down live wires.
The woman filmed about 10 minutes of a Snapchat story in the lead-up to their deaths, showing them cruising around in the car, laughing and taking swigs from the bottle.
The young women sing along to the radio and shout from the car windows.
In another short clip the women walk into a bar before they are seen doing shots.
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"We have to go pick up another girl," says one of the women at the bar.
"Then we're going to go pick up a guy, maybe. Then we're going to a bonfire."
One of the last videos shows Smith, 21, at the wheel with a bottle of liquor between her legs. Molnar is in the passenger seat.
Herwig, 23, is then seen taking a swig from the bottle while in the last scene in the back seat with the fourth female, 17-year-old Heather Camisa.
Police were called to the crash scene about 1am where Camisa and Smith were pronounced dead at the scene.
Herwig was taken to hospital but died an hour later while Molnar survived the crash but remains in a critical condition, the newspaper reports.
Bethel Park Police Chief Timothy O'Connor said investigators determined the women in the Snapchat video were the same women at the crash.
"My own personal impression is that it's troubling," the police chief said of the video.
"You have four very young people seeking to go out and have a good time, and it ends in tragedy."
Chief O’Connor said he hoped the video and the women’s fate would serve as a warning to others looking to drink and drive.
"This underscores that when speed is a factor and there's alcohol in the car, it ends in tragedy. And this did," he said.
