Witnesses, 911 calls illuminate crash

SANTA FE (KRQE) - Friends of the victims describe the horrific scene in Santa Fe Sunday where two cars crashed head on, killing four teens and critically injuring another.

Four car loads of teens were headed to a party late Saturday night in El Dorado, N.M.

Clay Kinart was in one of those cars, and he said he saw a silver Jeep plow into his friend's car.

Avree Koffmann was driving that car, which was carrying four teenage passengers.

"[The Jeep] was traveling in the middle of the road, and then he swerved over into the wrong side of the road and Avree swerved out of the way and he t-boned her and the car flipped around once," Kinart said.

Kinart and other friends ran to help.

"I was trying to yell their names and my friend shined the light on them, and I just saw them laying there," Kinart said.

Other teens in the area made tearful and frantic phone calls to 911.

"Tell someone to get out here, it's really bad. I mean half the car is gone," a frantic teen said to a dispatcher. "I think people might be dead."

Sobs and screams can be heard in the background of the calls, as the teens tried to help their trapped friends.

"They got hit, they're bleeding; I don't know what to do," the teen said.

After checking, one teen told the 911 dispatcher that most of the passengers in car don't have pulses.

Then the teen said he would reluctantly check on the driver of the Jeep, Scott Owens.

"Hello, are you okay," the teen said.

"I don't know," Owens replied.

"He is struggling to put his pants on, I don' know what. I mean, he sounds pretty drunk or out of it. I have no idea," the teen said to the dispatcher.

Police said they believe that Owens was drunk during the accident. Police preformed a blood alcohol test on the driver to see if he was intoxicated. The results are expected in about two weeks.

The driver Avree Koffmann was the only survivor in her car, the other four teens died.

Her friends said Koffmann was pounding on the glass after the wreck, but they couldn't help her get out because they didn't want to move her.

Koffmann is at University of New Mexico Hospital. The hospital has blocked all information about her condition.