A high school senior football player is in intensive care after a car accident on Saturday night. Police say 17-year-old Brayden Thornbury was driving with his younger brother when he went off the side of the road on East Pike Street in Morrow.

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A high school senior football player is in intensive care after a car accident on Saturday night.Police say 17-year-old Brayden Thornbury was driving with his younger brother when he went off the side of the road on East Pike Street in Morrow.The car hit a guardrail and then a tree.Thornbury was airlifted to Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton. His condition was last listed as critical.Watch this storyPeople gathered on the Little Miami football field Sunday night to pray for a quick recovery."I think that he would want us to not sit around and mope or be sad all the time. I think he would want us to carry on with what we're doing and just keep praying for him and hoping for him to get better," Thornbury's friend Zach Bramkamp said.Bramkamp said he was one of the first people on the scene Saturday night."When I got there he was still stuck in the vehicle. They couldn't get him out yet, and I was trying to walk up and the cops kept telling me to go back to my car but I couldn't just go in there and sit down," Bramkamp said.The people that knew Thornbury said his talents shined off the football field as well. He recently just got back from a mission trip to Africa.Exceptional in every way; fit, smart and the kind of person I think we all want to be," Randy Morgan of Morgan's Canoe and Outdoor Centers said.Earlier in the summer Thornbury was an employee of Morgan's."It was hard for everyone that worked here. We had a lot of his friends that do work here and it was very difficult day for all of them," Morgan said.Family and friends said one of the things that is helping them to deal with the crash is to remember Thornbury's resilience and strength."You just gotta give him time because I definitely know he's not just going to lay down and give up," Bramkamp said.Bramkamp said Thornbury's 14-year-old brother was in the car with him, but he is going to be OK.The crash remains under investigation.