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Tampa Police: Race Led To Crash, Injuries, Charges

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By VALERIE KALFRIN | The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 1, 2007

TAMPA - Police say they charged two teenagers with reckless driving causing serious injury on Wednesday after a road race on a two-lane street ended in a collision.

Alejando Casillo, 18, and Ernesto Medina-Leon, 17, both of Tampa, were racing a 1993 Honda Civic and a 1997 Mitsubishi Eclipse south on North Trask Street when the crash occurred, Tampa police said.

About 5:40 p.m., both cars entered the intersection at West Ohio Avenue, failed to stop at a stop sign and smashed into a 1992 Dodge pickup, police said.

Three people suffered minor injuries, police said, and one passenger in the racing cars, Alain Raul Gambe-Coto, 17, of Tampa, had life-threatening injuries, police said.

Rescue personnel transported Gambe-Coto to St. Joseph's Hospital, police said. His condition was not immediately available.

Reporter Valerie Kalfrin can be reached at (813) 259-7800 or vkalfrin@tampatrib.com.

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