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Hinsdale High School Swimmer Dies In North Carolina Car Crash

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A high school teenager from Hinsdale, with dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer, is dead.

Kendall Pickering, 15, and her father Robert, 59, died in a car crash in North Carolina.

They were visiting colleges when their car went off the road and hit a tree Tuesday night on Interstate 85 near Kannapolis, North Carolina.

Kendall Pickering swam on the varsity swim team at Hinsdale Central and broke school records.

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