Three teens from the Nederland area were killed in an early morning wreck just inside Woodville city limits. Around 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 16, a vehicle carrying five passengers including Nicholas Breaux, 17, Natalee Merriman, 17, and Waylon Paul, 15, veered off Highway 287, flipped, striking multiple telephone poles, according to information from the Woodville Police.
Emergency responders used the jaws of life to extract a number of victims. Breaux, Merriman and Paul were pronounced dead at the scene.