Colin Stone Cistercian

DALLAS - The victim of Tuesday night’s fiery crash on Northwest Highway was a teenage boy. Police said he and another driver may have been racing each other at speeds of about 100 miles per hour.
Witnesses told police two BMWs were racing westbound on Northwest Highway after 8:30 p.m. They stopped at several red light and start again until one of the cars crashed near Shady Brook Lane.
The green BMW that 16-year-old Colin Stone was driving hit the median, flew into oncoming traffic and burst into flames. He died at the scene.
The University Park teen was on the Cistercian High School swimming team and had just left practice in east Dallas.
The other BMW involved did not stop. Police are investigating the possibility that the driver knew Stone.
Claire Wilhite was driving behind the two cars. She and many other drivers did stop to try to help the teenager and those in the five other cars involved in the crash.
“There was nothing that you could do, and people were really trying. I would like the family to know that there were so many people standing around and screaming, trying to help. But it just was so fast,” she said.


The driver Stone was racing is also believed to be a teen in an older-model, dark BMW. Sources tell News 8 the drivers knew each other from competing as swimmers at the Knights of Columbus pool, also on Northwest Highway. The teens were apparently in a swimming club and took their competition on to the road.
The other racer is still at large. Street racing that causes a death is a second degree felony. Police are using stoplight footage to track down the other driver.
Two other people in the crash had to be rushed to the hospital. Both are expected to be okay.
"[Stone] brushed up against a pickup truck going the opposite direction, and then he spun off that vehicle and rotated into an early-model Volvo," said Sgt. Fred Katani of the Dallas police. "And when you look at the pictures of the vehicle, it's a miracle that no one was seriously injured in that Volvo."
That Volvo carried three passengers, but none were hospitalized.


Algae Vazquez, who has worked for the last six years at a restaurant along that stretch of Northwest Highway, said street racing is a problem in that area. She said, typically, it is on weekends, not weeknights.


She said she avoids Northwest Highway on weekends altogether because that is when cars and motorcycles street race and the drivers are usually younger ones.


Vazquez would like to see more policing in the area to make it safer. She's not alone.


Dallas police said they are still talking to witnesses and reviewing 911 tapes, hoping to learn more about what happened leading up to last night's crash.


Police said, even if street racing played a role, right now, they do not have a description of the other vehicle involved.