Students at St. Joan of Arc Catholic High School in Vaughan, are mourning for the second time in three weeks, after two classmates were killed in a high-speed car accident on Monday.
Ryan Sheridan, 17, and Niko Di Iorio, 15, were killed when their Volkswagen Golf lost control on Keele Street, near Lloydtown-Aurora Road in Maple, and crashed into a tree.
Another student at the school, aged 15, was pulled out of the wreckage and is in a Toronto hospital in serious condition.
Police say speed was a factor in the crash.
The three teens had the day off of school for a P.A. day and were on their way to a day of skiing when the accident took place around 1:30 p.m.
This is the second tragedy to strike the school in less than a month.
On January 12, Grade 12 student Steven Seixeiro was struck and killed by a transport truck at Keele St. & Rutherford Rd.
The 17-year-old had just gotten off the eastbound bus he took every morning along Rutherford Road. When he was struck, he was crossing Keele to catch the connecting bus that took him north to his school.
An emergency staff meeting was held Tuesday morning at the school, as well as two student assemblies.
Chris Cable of the York Catholic District School Board told Global News that they had called in as many grief counsellors as they could find.
The flag at the school was flying at half-staff on Tuesday in the students’ memory.
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