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Two students killed in fatal accident
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McDaniel Mill Road was closed for several hours as emergency personnel attended to the scene of an accident where two teens were killed Thursday morning. Their vehicle lost control as it went around a curve on McDaniel Mill Road and crashed into an oncoming pickup truck. - photo by By Michelle Kim

A Heritage High School senior and his eighth grade sister were killed this morning in a car accident on McDaniel Mill Road.

Karl Michael Anschutz, 18, was driving his sister, Laura, 13, to school at Davis Middle School around 7:30 a.m. when they went over a hill and around a curve on McDaniel Mill Road, according to the Rockdale County Sheriff's Office. The driver reportedly lost control of the vehicle and overcorrected into the path of an oncoming pickup truck. The teens died at the crash site.

The driver of the pickup truck was transported to Atlanta Medical Hospital and later released.

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