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Coroner identifies teen girl killed in Saturday car crash

Victoria Dickey, 17, died after being extracted from a car that had crashed into a tree Saturday, Feb. 19 on 35th Avenue in Moline.

MOLINE, Ill — UPDATE (Feb. 22)

Reactions from people close to Dickey and the school she attended have come out to honor her memory and help others.

She was a student of United Township High School in her senior year, and worked at Moline's Jersey Mikes. 

Her mom, Carol Brown, told News 8 that she was going online and preparing to graduate next month.

United Township High School District superintendent Jay Morrow says that a message was sent out to the community, and that counselors will be able to meet with and help students all week.

UPDATE (Feb. 21): The Rock Island County coroner's office on Monday, Feb. 21 identified the teenaged girl who died in a car crash Saturday in Moline.

The victim was 17-year-old Victoria Dickey of Moline, Rock Island County Coroner Brian Gustafson said, and an autopsy indicated her cause of death to be traumatic blunt head trauma. 

The Moline Police Department previously listed Dickey as 16 years old.

As of Monday morning, an investigation into the crash remained ongoing with the Moline Police Department's Accident Reconstruction and Criminal Investigation divisions and the Rock Island County coroner's office.

ORIGINAL (Feb. 20): A teenage girl was killed in a car crash Saturday night, Feb. 19 after the car she was in struck a tree on 35th Avenue in Moline, according to the Moline Police Department.

According to a news release from police, at about 9:45 p.m., officers responded to a single-car crash on the 1400 block of 35th Avenue, with witnesses saying that they saw the car in the trees on the side of the road.

First responders found the car, which had been travelling west on 35th Avenue and was approaching 14th Street, ran off the road to the left and struck a tree on the passenger side door.

Inside the car was a 22-year-old man driver and a 16-year-old girl passenger. The latter had to be extracted from the car by the Moline Fire Department. Both occupants were sent to the hospital, where the girl later died from her injuries.

No charges have been filed for the crash yet, and the girl's name was being withheld pending family notification as of Sunday morning.

The incident remained under investigation as of Sunday, according to Moline police.

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