UPDATE - Funeral services where held Saturday in Moorehead, Rowan County, Kentucky, for Kara Conley, 17, who was killed last week in a Clay County crash that injured 10 teens.
Only two of the 10 victims remain hospitalized, Jesse Walls and Codie Moore.
FRIDAY 8/9 -
Five of ten surviving victims of a 4 a.m. Clay County truck crash that killed a teen girl are still patients in Charleston Area Medical Center.
Jesse Walls, 19, is in critical condition and Codie Moore is recovering in the ICU.
Kara Conley, 18, of Bomont was killed when the truck went out of control, striking a guardrail, going over the hill and hitting a tree on State Rt. 36 near Wallback.
Eleven youth were in the vehicle, six in the bed of the truck.
There is no law in WV Code preventing passengers from riding in an open truck bed.
Kara Conley, 18, of Bomont was killed in the accident. Jesse Walls, 19, is still in critical condition. Codie Moore is in the ICU at CAMC General.
Andrew Boggs, Cory Barnes, Carter Morton, Issac Murphy, Corey Mays, Dakota Blankenship, Cory Hill, and Jeramiah Holcomb suffered injuries from minor to severe.
The teens said they went ghost hunting in the Clay backwoods section known as Booger Hole.
UPDATE - State Police are saying that an extended cab Ford driven by Isaac Murphy, 18, of Clay, was traveling at a high rate of speed when it ran off the road, struck a tree and landed on its side in a creek, killing one and injuring ten.
Parents are telling media the group was out "ghost-busting.
Some of the passengers, ages 14 to 20, where in the open bed of the truck which crashed at 4 a.m. Tuesday near Wallback on State Rt. 36. There is no law against riding in a truck bed in the Mountain State.
Police are saying some received minor injuries and have been treated and released, while others were critically injured.
Kara Conley, 17, of Bomont, a Clay County High student, died when she was pinned beneath truck.
Parents are saying the teens were ghosting hunting in a section of the Booger Hole section of the county near Big Otter, the remote area known for murder and mayhem during and after the Civil War.
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State Police are waiting on toxicology reports to determine whether drugs were a factor.
ORIGINAL STORY - Reports say a truckload of mostly Clay Co. teens crashed near Wallback about 4 a.m. on State Rt. 36, killing Kara Conley, 17, a student at Clay High, and sending ten others to Charleston hospitals.
The driver has been identified as Issac Murphy, 18.
All eleven were in the same vehicle, a F-150 Ford pickup.
State Police said the victims are ages 14 to 20, most suffering non-life threatening injuries.
Emergency responders at the scene say it appears the driver fell asleep, hit a guardrail and flipped the truck, which landed upside down in a creek.
Those sources say three people were in the cab, four in the back seat and the rest of the victims were in the back of the truck.
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