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14-year-olds stolen car; One was killed when it fell into the house:

A teenager was killed and another injured after driving a car in a house in Moore County on Thursday morning.

“It was terrible. It was a great explosion. It was like a caboom,” said neighbor Donnie Scott.

The crash occurred shortly before 3:30 a.m. in the Stanton Hill Road in Cameron. According to North Carolina State Highway Patrol, the teenagers took a curve with a “high speed rate” in a GMC Yukon and ran from the street.

The car collided with a mailbox, drove through a field, hit a tree and then a house and, according to the Highway Patrol, caught fire.

Mike Cameron, fire chief of Cypress Pointe, said Wral News that both boys were 14 in the car. Relatives said the boys had taken the Yukon from the parents of a boy.

The driver died at the scene. The other boy was brought to UNC hospitals.

Scott and others watched how first aiders tried to get the boys out.

“We crashed the hill up to do something, but we couldn't be nearby because it was so hot,” he said. “Then the house catches fire and curls.”

The fire damage to the car was so serious that it is impossible to say whether the boy was wearing a seat belt or whether the airbags that were used in the crash were wearing a seat belt.

First aiders said that the house and the car were on fire when they arrived. Firefighters saved a dog that was in the house. At that time there were no people inside.

Wral News is working on learning the names of the boys involved. Both were students in Moore County Schools.

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