Virginia Beach mom dies in Chesapeake crash
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Katie Young – a Virginia Beach wife and mother of two – died Friday night when the car she was riding in collided with a second auto at Mount Pleasant Road and Stadium Drive in Chesapeake.
The death of Young, 29, is particularly tragic – a national newspaper wrote two days before her death about how her family was dealing with her recent diagnosis of Crohn’s disease.
The Young family has my deepest sympathies. They are bearing a burden no family should ever have to.
Young was a passenger in a Honda that was traveling on Stadium Drive in Chesapeake when it crossed Mount Pleasant Road. A Buick headed east on Mount Pleasant collided with the Honda, and Young was thrown clear by the force of the impact, The Virginian-Pilot reported.
Police have not yet identified the driver of either auto, and no charges have yet been announced.
The crash happened just after 11 p.m. Friday near Colon Hall Stadium and Great Bridge Middle School.
Young lived in the 3900 block of Rainbow Drive in Virginia Beach, the newspaper said. She was married to Justin Young and they had two children together: Justin, 8, and Madison, 5.
Young’s husband had recently restarted his music career – songs and more at justinyoung.com – to help pay medical bills for his wife’s Crohn’s disease.
"You look at the trials that happen in your life and say, OK, why am I going through this? What am I supposed to learn from this? Let's learn this and move on,” Justin Young told the Mormon Times before the crash. “That's how we're looking at it."