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Family: Teen not killed by car surfing
Mother, sister convinced police report on girls death mistaken
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Family members of the teen who died last week in what has been dubbed a “car surfing” accident are convinced the police report is inaccurate. “The first two witnesses on the scene that stayed with Anna until the EMTs arrived both have said the first thing the driver kept saying was ‘she fell out the door, she fell out the door,’” said Nancy Hawkins, whose 16-year-old daughter, Anna Gabrielle Hawkins, died from injuries sustained in the June 10 crash. Authorities said Anna Hawkins was car surfing, a dangerous practice often depicted in movies and on TV that involves standing on the hood or roof of a moving vehicle, when the 16-year-old driver of a Suzuki Grand Vitara lost control in a curve on Couch Road.