It happened again.
Two weeks ago, Nicole Rodia, a Phoenix St. Mary’s varsity swimmer and JV softball player, was killed in a two-car accident (with her best friend from Phoenix Xavier in the driver’s seat).
On Wednesday night, four football players from Gilbert Williams Field were involved in a rollover accident, which killed 15-year-old Dylan Beaver, a JV football player, and sent three other friends and teammates to the hospital in critical condition.
Only one wore a seat belt.
It’s that time of year to put the pedal to the metal, with school winding down and the weather heating up. What teenager can resist cruising?
Talk today should be about the Gilbert football players who chased down a thief in their locker room and called police.
But it won’t be, because unnecessary lives lost will forever overshadow a citizen’s arrest.
We can only wish it doesn’t happen again, but we all know it will.
