The 16-year-old female driver in a fatal crash that left two teenagers dead and one in intensive care has been charged with two counts of dangerous driving causing death and two counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm, the Ontario Provincial Police said Monday evening.

The accident occurred on Rutledge Road in South Frontenac Township on Wednesday, June 17, at approximately 10:45 p.m.

The driver’s Hyundai SUV left County Road 5 and rolled with five teenagers inside. All five were students from the Limestone District School Board, according to Brenda Hunter, director of education for the board.

A resident who lived a few doors away from the scene told the Whig-Standard the scene was very traumatic.

“By the time they took (the vehicle) away this morning, you couldn’t tell what it was,” the woman, who wished to remain unidentified, said. Once her neighbours heard the crash, she said they all rushed out to help.

Two of the passengers, a Kingston girl and a Sydenham boy, both 16, died at the scene of the accident, while a third passenger, 17-year-old Tyler Parr, was transported to Kingston General Hospital with life-threatening injuries, and the driver and another passenger were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Nearly two weeks after the accident, Parr still remains in hospital.

Parr’s friends have come to visit him at the hospital, Van Camp, a close friend of the Parr family, told the Whig-Standard.

“They lost two friends, and another one is fighting, so you can imagine the strain on them,” Van Camp said.

All of the occupants of the vehicle were wearing seatbelts and no alcohol was involved in the crash, he said.

The charged driver was released on a promise to appear and will attend the Ontario Court of Justice in Kingston on Tuesday, July 21.

The 16-year-old cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

— with files from Steph Crosier, The Whig-Standard