WIRT COUNTY STUDENT CRITICAL - Auto Accident On Route 53

(02/18/2001)
A Wirt County starting varsity girl's basketball player is clinging to life in a Columbus Hospital in critical condition, according to WVRC Radio in Spencer.

Brandi Dennis 16, of Elizabeth was critically injured in an auto accident along Rt. 53 shortly after 10 p.m. Wed. She apparently lost control of her Grand Am, went over an embankment and struck a tree. She was reportedly ejected from the car. Grief counselors were on hand at Wirt County High School for friends.