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Lakeside High School students involved in deadly DeKalb County crash

By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
Updated  March 12, 2024 2:33pm EDT
DeKalb County
FOX 5 Atlanta

Lakeside High student killed in car crash

Guillermo Aguas-Bahena, 16, marks the fifth Lakeside High School student to be killed in a car crash in about six months.

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - A 16-year-old driver died, and two others were taken to the hospital after a car crash in DeKalb County early Tuesday morning.

DeKalb County officials tell FOX 5 a car overturned shortly before 2 a.m. on Northcrest Road just north of Chamblee Tucker Road.

Officials say the wreck knocked down several power lines.

Investigators say the driver was 16 years old. Medics rushed two passengers to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. 

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Officials have not released the identity of anyone involved in the crash at this time.

However, the principal at Lakeside High School sent a letter to Lakeside families saying two of its students were involved in the crash.

The principal identified the student who died as Guillermo Aguas-Bahena, Class of 2025. The other student, identified as Alex Vegas in the Class of 2025, was stable when taken to a hospital and is expected to be released. The third person in the car was not identified in the letter.

According to a GoFundMe organized for the Bahena family, the third victim who remains in intensive care is Guillermo's brother.

The school says it understands the "enormous impact" of the death on the community and school counselors, psychologists and additional staff will be available to students throughout the week as needed.

Lakeside High School is located on Briarcliff Road NE near Oak Grove Road. 

The crash shut down Northcrest Road for hours while crews worked at the scene. The road has since reopened.

This isn't the first fatal crash in recent history involving Lakeside students.

Sophia Lekiachvili was killed Feb. 24 in a crash near Oak Grove Road and Kirkland Drive. Two others were injured in the crash. 

Three students were killed in a crash on Interstate 85 in early September. Two other teens were also killed in the crash.

"The people that go to this school, you know, even if you're not really close to them, you'd be reasonably sad because it's another human being that had a future that seems to have been cut short," the sibling of a Lakeside High student unrelated to this matter told FOX 5.