SEATTLE-
A speeding sport utility vehicle plunged into Elliot Bay early Sunday, killing two teens and injuring four others who were rescued from the water, police said.
The Ford Explorer carrying six boys in their late teens flew off an embankment after failing to navigate a corner, police spokesman Sean Whitcomb said.
“Drugs and/or alcohol may have played a factor, but certainly excessive speed did play a factor,” Whitcomb said.
Fire department medics and someone who lived nearby rescued the four survivors and helped them to shore, Whitcomb said.
They were taken to Harborview Medical Center with severe injuries, some of which may be life-threatening, Whitcomb said.
Authorities did not release the victims’ names.
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