Student from Sigonella, sailor killed in crash By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Wednesday, January 30, 2008
A Sigonella High School junior and a sailor stationed on that Navy base in Sicily were killed Saturday afternoon in a head-on car crash, a Navy official said Tuesday.
Seaman Mark Gipson, 20, and Michael Hancock, 17, were pronounced dead at the scene of the 2:30 p.m. crash, said Navy Lt. Jon Groveman, spokesman for Naval Air Station Sigonella.
Two Italians traveling in another car were injured.
Hancock and Gipson, a master-at-arms and the driver, were on local roadway SS-417, Groveman said. Even though it’s only a two-lane road — one lane in each direction — connecting the two Navy bases, it is considered a major thoroughfare. Groveman did not know what kind of car Gipson was driving.
Hancock was a popular student, a leader among his peers at Sigonella High and involved in a number of extracurricular activities such as Junior ROTC, principal Sonny Bertschinger said.
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