A tragic crash that occurred on Route 903 in Penn Forest Township on Aug. 20 took the lives of two Jim Thorpe Area High School teens. Taylor Shepherdson, 16, and Jasmine Fonseca, 15 both of Albrightsville, were best friends and inseparable.

The crash happened during a torrential downpour when the vehicle the girls were traveling in crossed into the path of an oncoming car, rolled over and came to rest on the shoulder of the road. Today a memorial stands in its place.The girls were being driven home from cheerleading practice a few days before the start of the new school year. The Chevrolet Uplander driven by 18-year-old Tegan Kane also held his brother, Korben, and their cousins Taylor Schmidt of Lehighton and Michael Thorpe of New Jersey.The Uplander struck a Buick Enclave driven by Verner Drohan, 76, and his wife, Gail, 72, both of Fulton, New York. Verner suffered minor injuries but his wife suffered a number of broken bones in her hands, feet, sternum and one in her neck.Schmidt and Thorpe both suffered serious injuries which required surgeries and a long recovery. Tegan Kane suffered minor injuries.Korben Kane remains hospitalized. According to a family GoFundMe page Kane is currently in an intensive care unit at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where the staff is trying to wean him off a ventilator.State police at Fern Ridge are still investigating the crash.