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Teenage driver reading texts before fatal crash
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A Mid-Canterbury teenager was sending and reading text messages
before his sports utility vehicle crashed into a car, killing two
people, a court heard yesterday.
Robert John Stonestreet, 19, of Hinds, pleaded guilty in the
Ashburton District Court to causing the death of Beverley Dawn
Keating and Samuel Haslett Keating while driving with excess blood-
alcohol.
The Keatings, of Ashburton, were returning home after celebrating
their 49th wedding anniversary in Ashburton last Sep...
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