ALAMANCE COUNTY, N.C. (Gray News) - A young North Carolina girl died in a car crash just days before graduating from high school.

According to the North Carolina Highway Patrol, the crash happened on Monday at about 12:30 a.m. on Highway 87 in Alamance County.

Authorities said a car driven by 38-year-old Tracey Hernandez crossed the center line and hit a vehicle being driven by 18-year-old Lily Hahn head-on.

Hahn was pronounced dead at the scene.

Four children were also in Hernandez’s car. No one was restrained, but authorities said no one suffered any life-threatening injuries in that vehicle.

Loved ones said Hahn was just four days away from graduating from Southeast Alamance High School at the time of her death.

She had planned on attending Alamance Community College and Appalachi

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