BULL RUN MOUNTAIN, Va. -- A small bouquet of flowers sits on the side of Logmill Road where two Haymarket teens died in a car crash early Sunday morning.
Police said Stephen Tyler Dixon, 18, of Stourcliffe Court in Haymarket, was driving a 2004 Mazda RX-8 east on Logmill Road near Parnell Court about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, when he lost control at the top of a hill.
A 1994 Acura Integra was driving west on Logmill Road and struck Dixon’s car on the passenger side, said Prince William County police spokesman Jonathan Perok.
The crash pushed the Acura into a a ditch and caused the Mazda to flip over and land on its roof, Perok said.
Dixon and a front seat passenger in his car, Derek Meffert, 15, of Hunton Lane in Haymarket, died at the scene.
A 16-year-old Gainesville girl, who was riding the back seat of Dixon’s car was flown to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The driver of the Acura, a 22-year-old Haymarket man, was also flown to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Dixon was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, Perok said.
Police said speed and alcohol were factors.
Friends said the teens were driving home from a party at a house on Logmill Road.
The three teens involved all went to Battlefield High School.
Dixon graduated this year and Meffert would have been starting his sophomore year at the Haymarket area school, principal Amy Ethridge-Conti said.
Though students are still on summer break, counselors are available at the school to help students and staff members who want to talk about the crash, Ethridge-Conti said.
The road where the crash occurred is “very dangerous,” Perok said.
The speed limit on the road is 40 miles per hour, but the posted “safe speed” for much of it is 15 miles per hour.
“A lot of accidents occur here because people are going too fast,” Perok said.
Sunday’s accident came weeks after another recent Battlefield graduate died in a car crash.
Taylor William Waldron, 18, died July 23 from injuries he sustained in a single-car crash in the on Kettle Run Drive in Nokesville on July 17.
Staff writer Amanda Stewart can be reached at 703-530-3908.
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