Support Pours In For Wallingford Teens Injured In Crash

WALLINGFORD, CT — The community is rallying around two Sheehan High School students who were seriously injured in a car crash last Friday afternoon on Highland Avenue in Wallingford. The crash occurred at about 3 p.m. on March 16 when a 16-year-old driver lost control of the vehicle and struck a large tree. Both the driver and a 15-year-old passenger needed to be extricated from the vehicle, which was totaled in the crash, and were taken to the hospital. The teens had attended a Sheehan football meeting just before the crash, according to police.

Police are continuing to investigate the crash and haven’t officially identified the teens pending the investigation. However, multiple online fundraisers have been launched in support of the teens and have identified them as Jordan Davis, 16, and Tre Childers, 15. Davis has been released from the hospital after undergoing major surgery, according to FOX 61. Police said after the crash that the 15-year-old passenger was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.

Ernie Childers told FOX 61 on Monday that his son Tre remains in the pediatric intensive care unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital where he was being treated for bleeding on the brain and a collapsed lung. Ernie Childers said that Tre was progressing and spoke for the first time since the accident.

GoFundMe pages have been launched for both Davis and Childers to help the families with medical expenses. More than $17,000 has been raised for Childers and more than $7,000 for Davis since the start of the campaigns.

You can visit the GoFundMe page for Davis here and for Childers here.

Read the full story on FOX 61 here.

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