Excessive speed was the main factor in a crash that killed three E.E. Smith High School students and critically injured another driver in Fayetteville on Oct. 8, according to police.
The crash took place on Rosehill Road shortly after 7 p.m.
When police officers arrived, they found that a gray 2024 Honda Civic had run off the road and hit a telephone pole. It went down an embankment and crashed into a tree…