Teen injured in September wreck dies

WASILLA – A horrific car wreck on the Parks Highway at Mile 51 last month has finally claimed the life of a 16-year-old Wasilla girl, Alaska State Troopers announced Monday.

Chelsea E. Johnston had been in the hospital since the wreck, which happened at 4:12 p.m. Sept. 20 and left six people hospitalized. Troopers say Johnston died at the Alaska Native Medical Center Saturday.

Still hospitalized are a 15 year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl both are from Wasilla and were with Johnston in the 1992 Chevrolet Trailblazer which crossed the centerline, hitting an oncoming Plymouth Horizon sedan, troopers said Monday.

Both teens are in Anchorage and their medical conditions have improved, troopers report. A fourth person was also injured in that car – Kyle Bisonnette, 20, of Wasilla.

In the other car, Donna Gallant, 19, of Big Lake, and her stepfather, Timothy Abell, 44, of Wasilla, were both sent to the hospital.

According to troopers, Gallant is in stable condition. According to her family, Gallant was more than 8 months pregnant at the time of the wreck and lost her baby as a result.

Troopers say they have not settled on a cause of the accident and are still investigating.