An 18-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man died early Sunday after their car was rear-ended by a driver who told police he was intoxicated, charges said.
A memorial rests on the charred ground on Monday for the young couple who were killed in a fiery crash early Sunday morning near the Cordova Street hill south of 15th Avenue in Anchorage. at Cordova Street and 15th Avenue were a young couple headed to college on basketball scholarships, family members say.
The victims were described Monday by their mothers as an 18-year-old woman and 20-year-old man, both from Anchorage. The man was hard working, his mother said, and worked two jobs even though he didn’t need to. And the woman had just graduated from South Anchorage High School with honors, her mother said. She planned to study medicine and become a neurosurgeon, she said.
During his initial court hearing Monday, Davis told Anchorage District Court Judge Michael Franciosi that he serves in the military. He told police at the scene of the accident that he drank at several downtown bars and consumed 10 to 15 alcoholic beverages before the crash. His blood alcohol, taken later at a hospital, measured about three times the legal limit for driving, the charges said.
Davis was southbound on Cordova Street when he struck a blue Hyundai that was stopped at the intersection of East 15th Avenue, the charges said. The impact caused the Hyundai to hit a tree on the southwest corner of the intersection and catch on fire, Buettner wrote.. The driver was not injured and no one else was in the truck.
He appeared at the Anchorage Correctional Center Monday afternoon for his first court hearing. As the mothers of both victims spoke tearfully about their children, he looked down at the podium in the jail’s courtroom.
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