High school students in Simsbury are mourning the death of a classmate Tommy Tanski, who was killed in a car accident over the weekend. Tansk would have been a senior at Simsbury High School in the fall.
SIMSBURY, Conn. — High school students in Simsbury are mourning the death of a classmate killed in a car accident over the weekend.
Friends and the town's superintendent of schools say the victim of Sunday's early morning, one-car crash on Old Meadow Plains Road was Tommy Tanski, who would have been a senior at Simsbury High School in the fall. Three other people in the car are expected to recover.
Friends have posted a hand-painted sign outside the high school that says, "Rest in Peace Tommy — Forever Loved."
Police are still investigating the accident and have not released the names of the other people who were in the car. Tanski's friends say he was not the driver.
THE MAP BELOW shows the approximate area where a Simsbury High School student died in a car crash over the weekend: