Two sentenced to prison for drag racing deaths

<p>Two 20-year-olds whose teenage racing in their BMWs led to a wreck that killed two people were sentenced to prison Thursday after pleading guilty to vehicluar homicide in Gwinnett County.</p><p>Wendy Jennings received five years in prison and Susan Osley was sentenced to four years in the March 2003 deaths of Julia Burns, 61, and Jacob Miller, 17, in Norcross.</p><p>District Attorney Danny Porter said their 90 mph race on suburban Atlanta's Peachtree Parkway ended when Jennings' car flipped and landed in the path of a car driven by Burns, who was returning to her Duluth home from a Florida vacation.</p><p>Miller was a passenger of Jennings.</p><p>Porter said a case is still pending against Jennings' father, James Christopher Jennings, who was accused in a February 2005 indictment of allowing his daughter to drive an unsafe car. The indictment said Jennings knew the BMW had worn brakes and tires.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x1cd9c54)</p>

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