HINESVILLE - Officials investigated a crash on Interstate 95 early Sunday that left three young men dead. <br>
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Corporal R.L. Dunsmore, of the Hinesville post of the Georgia State Patrol, said a 1996 Chevrolet Impala carrying five people slammed backward into a tree and burst into flames about 6:55 a.m. <br>
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Three bodies were recovered from the car, which was burned to the point that neither the license plate nor the vehicle identification number was legible, authorities said. <br>
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The bodies have gone to the state crime lab in Atlanta for identification, Dunsmore said. <br>
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Two young men, who have not yet been identified, were ejected from the car and survived. They were transported to the burn unit of Doctors Hospital in Augusta, Dunsmore said. <br>
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Officials have not released the victims' names but Union (S.C.) High School football coach Mike Anthony told a Spartanburg television station the five men had played on his state championship teams in 1999 and 2000. <br>
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Anthony told WYFF he spent much of Sunday talking with the players' families in Union. <br>
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Another car, carrying a Virginia couple and their three-year-old son to Disney World, flipped and ended up in the median. No one in that car was injured in the wreck. <br>
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