Classmates plant flowers in honor of Fairborn HS student killed in crash

Close friends of Lily Clingner, a 17-year-old Fairborn High School student killed in a crash in December 2022, planted lilies at the bench in Community Park in her honor. CONTRIBUTED

Close friends of Lily Clingner, a 17-year-old Fairborn High School student killed in a crash in December 2022, planted lilies at the bench in Community Park in her honor. CONTRIBUTED
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By Nick Blizzard
May 15, 2023
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Lily Clingner’s closest friends recently planted lilies at a bench in Community Park in honor the Fairborn High School student who died in a December car crash.

Along with the bench, there also is a mailbox for people to leave letters and notes in the container to which her parents will have access.

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Clingner, 17, ran for the FHS cross country team and appeared on the high school’s honor roll. She was driving east on Dayton-Xenia Road in December with two other teens in her Volkswagen Beetle.

The car was struck at the intersection of Trebein Road by a dump truck that was headed south on Treibein, authorities said.

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Nick Blizzard is a staff writer for the Dayton Daily News. He is a graduate of Stebbins High School who earned a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University and its E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. Nick is a Riverside native who has lived in Huber Heights and Kettering. He has been a journalist in the Dayton area for more than 25 years.