Colerain Excessive College mourns senior’s loss of life in Oxford Township crash
Colerain Excessive College will undertake a Hawaiian theme at Friday night time’s soccer sport in opposition to Fairfield as a tribute to a senior killed in a crash this week.
Tyler Carter, 17, died Wednesday following a single-vehicle crash in Oxford Township, based on police and college officers.
He was driving north on Brown Highway on Monday afternoon when he misplaced management of his 2001 Ford Focus and veered off the roadway right into a ditch, scraping a phone pole, based on a police report. The automobile appeared to have flipped but it surely got here to relaxation on all 4 wheels, the report states. He was transported to the hospital and died Wednesday.
Tyler was a senior who attended Monfort Heights Elementary College earlier than transferring on to White Oak Center College and Colerain Excessive College. In a letter to households on Thursday, Colerain Excessive College Principal Erin Davis stated the Northwest Native College District had grief and steering counselors out there in any respect three faculties to assist workers and college students.
“Throughout this time, we ask that our college students and workers proceed to assist each other as all of us navigate the grieving course of,” Davis wrote.
The thought to go Hawaiian Friday night time, asking Colerain Excessive College college students and workers to put on mismatched Crocs and Hawaiian shirts in Tyler’s reminiscence throughout Friday night time’s soccer sport, got here from his household.
Tim Carter, Tyler’s father, stated that ensemble was Tyler’s “signature put on.”
“Tyler was a kind of children who did not care what individuals considered him,” his dad stated. “He simply marched to the beat of his personal drum.”
‘Lots of life to stay’
His dad stated Tyler, who was a member of Colerain’s junior varsity golf crew, was on his option to a golf match in opposition to Talawanda Excessive College at Hueston Woods when he crashed.
Tyler was an avid photographer and performed every kind of sports activities, his dad stated, together with bowling, fishing and golf. Tim remembers him digging divots within the yard whereas practising his golf stroke.
Tyler was additionally a star scout in his Boy Scouts troop. And from a really younger age Tyler’s religion in God was central to who he was, Tim stated.
“He simply had quite a lot of life to stay.”
Tim stated Tyler’s mom Gail satisfied their son to change into an organ donor when he obtained his driver’s license. He stated his son touched quite a lot of lives and now he has an opportunity to avoid wasting lives too ‒ greater than 100 individuals will profit from the organ donations.
Tyler is survived by his mother and father Tim and Gail Carter, his sister and brother-in-law Sydney and Noah Riggs, his brother Tom and his sister Claire.
A celebration of life occasion might be held Saturday, Sept. 10, at Religion Fellowship Church, 6734 Bridgetown Highway. Visitation will start at 9 a.m. adopted by ashort service at 1 p.m.
