<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>An 18-year-old New Trier softball player died Tuesday night of injuries she suffered when her SUV flipped over on the Edens Expressway while she was on her way home from celebrating a winning season opener.Arianne Chester was pronounced dead just after 9 p.m. Tuesday at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, according to a spokesman with the Cook County medical examiner's office.Chester was driving a Jeep Liberty about 9:45 p.m. Monday when a car cut her off on the Edens (Interstate 94), near Golf Road in Skokie, state police said. When she swerved to avoid the car, her Jeep struck the rear of a semi-trailer truck, hit a concrete barrier and flipped over.Another 18-year-old woman was a front-seat passenger in the Liberty, but she suffered minor injuries, state police Sgt. Mike Musiol said. The driver of the semi was not injured.Chester was a starting centerfielder and co-captain of the girls softball team at New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, friends said. The team on Monday beat Von Steuben 15-0 in the season opener, said softball coach John Cadwell.Cadwell said the crash occurred later that night, while Chester and a teammate were returning from a McDonald's restaurant in Skokie as a group of friends followed in a second vehicle.Chester sustained a severed spinal cord and severe head trauma in the accident, and had been on life-support before being pronounced dead, Cadwell said.Cadwell described Chester as a bright, giving young lady who was planning to attend Vanderbilt University, where she hoped to study to become a doctor. She was involved in New Trier's Peer Helping program and volunteered long hours last summer working at the school's summer softball camp, Cadwell said."It's inconceivable that something this tragic has happened," Cadwell said. "She was so young and had so much to offer the world. It's an awful loss."New Trier co-captain and senior third baseman Elise Menaker described Chester as a popular and giving student."Ari always put others ahead of herself," said Menaker, 18. She said a "steady stream of kids" visited Chester at her hospital bed all day Tuesday."We could fit maybe 40 or 50 in the room and the rest of the kids sat in the hallway waiting their turn," Menaker said. "When I left, there were still about 100 students waiting to see her."</div>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/c...ack=1&cset=trueRest in Peace, AriShe was in my english class
Damn dude, i'm really sorry to hear that, i feel bad for her family because i know what they're going through.R.I.P Arianne
It was wierd today in english class. The teacher talked about this for a while and someone from the social work department came and spoke. Really wierd
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (bobferg @ Mar 23 2006, 06:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Was there booze involved?</div>Police believe that drugs and alcohol did NOT play a role in this. Someone in a red vehicle cut her off, and she rear-ended a semi trying to aviod the car. The car then hit a concrete barrier and flipped over
Yes I think it does matter if there was booze involved...But since there wasn't RIP. Hopefully your school, community and her team will be able to put this behind them.
On Friday, english class was really weird. We had only 3 students in class that day. Before she was killed, we were a class of 16
