A photo at the vigil of the two together appeared to show the pair before a school dance. Vince’s soccer jersey was also prominently displayed at the vigil.
Attendees were encouraged to celebrate and remember the young couple’s lives, and people shared fond memories and sentiments.
Jeff Nickles, coach of the soccer team on which Vince was a goalkeeper, said he was a skilled and dedicated player. He recalled a time Vince dropped the ball during a game and his shock when Vince later told him he was unable to see the ball as his vision had gotten worse.
Nickles said the fact that Vince played with that struggle showed his nature of rolling with the punches.
Adrian Shergill, owner of The Last Queen gastropub in Enon, where Vince worked for the last two years, said the large turnout was a testament to the love the community has for Daly and Vince and who they were in their lives. Shergill remembered Vince as “such and upstanding, honorable young man.”
Daly was remembered on social media as kind, loving and adventurous, with a great sense of humor.
Coroner formally IDs teens, driver killed
Crews responded to reports of a crash from 911 calls “about a wrong way driver heading west on I-70 east, which collided with several other vehicles” around 1:12 a.m. Sunday on I-70 eastbound near Brandt Pike, according to the Huber Heights Police Division.
Friends and family initially identified two of the people killed as Vince and Daly, both of Enon.
On Thursday, the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office formally identified Vince and Daly, while also identifying 55-year-old Doniell Snow as the driver who drove the wrong way on I-70.
Alcohol could be a factor in the accident as law enforcement says Snow may have been at a bar prior to driving the wrong way on the interstate.
Initial reports
The initial investigation showed Snow drove a 2016 Chevrolet Tahoe up the exit ramp at Ohio 201, going west into oncoming eastbound traffic, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said.
The Tahoe first crashed into a 2019 Honda Accord that was preparing to take the exit onto Ohio 201.
The Honda driver, a 25-year-old man, tried to avoid the SUV by changing lanes but the Tahoe also changed lanes and crashed into the car, said Jeremy Roy, MSCO chief of staff, causing the Accord to spin out of control and hit the concrete barrier.
The Tahoe then continued driving the wrong way down I-70 for about half a mile before crashing head-on into a 2020 Chevy Trax driven by a young adult female, who had a young adult passenger in the car. These victims were later identified as Vince and Daly.
After the collision with the Trax, the SUV crashed into a 2013 Chevy Malibu, driven by a 33-year-old male.
The driver of the Tahoe and both the driver and passenger from the Trax were pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the Malibu was in critical condition as of Tuesday. The driver and a passenger in the Honda had minor injuries.
Law enforcement is continuing to investigate what led up to the crash.
“Based on social media posts and video evidence, we have been able to track the at-fault driver to a local bar prior to the crash,” Roy said. “We’re in the process of tracking down anybody that was at the bar with the at-fault driver to determine his behavior and state of mind leading up to the crash.”
The motivation of the crash is still unclear, though at least one witness said they believed the driver was intentionally trying to crash into oncoming traffic.
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