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<p><em><strong>From NBC 4</strong></em></p>
<p class="paragraph" data-pnum="1"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The car that struck and killed a woman in another car Sunday may have been carrying two drunken drivers.</span></p>
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<p class="paragraph" data-pnum="2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Vanessa Lawrence and her family were returning home from church about 5 p.m. when it happened.</span></p>
<p class="paragraph" data-pnum="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“As I pulled in my carport, I heard a loud bang almost just like a bomb going off,” Lawrence said.</span></p>
<p class="paragraph" data-pnum="4"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A Volvo with a drunken driver behind the wheel was racing down Brock Road when it crossed the center line and hit the car driven by 25-year-old Samantha Sumter, investigators said. Rescuers cut her out of the car, but she died soon after.</span></p>
<p class="paragraph" data-pnum="5"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lawrence and her daughter told the men in the Volvo help was coming.</span></p>
<p class="paragraph" data-pnum="6"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“I came out and saw the guy’s leg just hanging out, and we just started praying,” Lawrence’s daughter said.</span></p>
<p class="paragraph" data-pnum="7"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Calls about the Volvo were placed before the fatal crash, according to the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office. People called 911 to report a car driving dangerously fast. The passengers were hanging cartons or beer out the window and yelling, witnesses said.</span></p>
<p class="paragraph" data-pnum="8"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Volvo struck two vehicles, at which point one man bailed out and ran and the two others changed seats.</span></p>
<p class="paragraph" data-pnum="9"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“The subjects then, it appears, switched places where the</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">driver left the driver&#8217;s seat, according to the witnesses, another person in the vehicle took over driver&#8217;s seat,” Capt. Jeff Pearce of the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said.</span></p>
<p class="paragraph" data-pnum="10"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sheriff’s deputies were trying to catch up, but the Volvo continued further down the road until the head-on collision.</span></p>
<p class="paragraph" data-pnum="11"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“This is one of the worst things that a deputy has to deal with is the death of an innocent, and you never get used to it,” Pearce said.</span></p>
<p class="paragraph" data-pnum="12"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">One man in the Volvo has already been charged with driving under the influence, but other charges against both men are likely.</span></p>
<p class="paragraph" data-pnum="12"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Samantha M. Sumter, 26, departed this life on Sunday, September 13, 2015.</span></p>
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