Less than a week after a North Gwinnett High School student died in a crash near campus, a longtime friend says the teenager was just making a quick run for food when he crashed.
Joshua Greenwood, 16, said Shan Ramcharan took classes online, so he usually left campus early to head home.
He was on the way to Chick-fil-A when he got into the accident that killed him, Greenwood said.
Ramcharan, 17, was heading west on Moore Road on Friday when he lost control of a 2005 Nissan trying to negotiate a curve at Belle Estates Road, according to a Gwinnett County police crash report.
The car spun counter-clockwise and collided with a 2001 Toyota Tacoma heading east.
Ramcharan’s car landed in the yard of a family, who pulled him from the wreckage, Channel 2 Action News reported.
When Greenwood saw wreckage from the crash on Snapchat, he frantically tried to call and text his friend, hoping the Shan mentioned on the app wasn’t his Shan.
He got “no answer.”
“I was like, ‘Oh God, no,’” Greenwood said.
Ramcharan, of Suwanee, was taken to Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville around 2:30 p.m. with life-threatening injuries. He died just before 9 p.m., said investigator Eric Bailey of the Gwinnett Medical Examiner’s Office.
“He was like one of those good, quality friends, like a friend that you wouldn’t want to lose,” Greenwood said.
The other driver, 53-year-old Ann Rhodes of Sugar Hill, was also injured but left the scene to seek medical attention, according to the crash report.
“This type of loss is hard for the whole school community,” Gwinnett County Schools spokeswoman Sloan Roach said. “Everyone feels it.”
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