Family outraged after two speeding muscle cars kill teen girls on SoCal street

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Set us as preferred Maddalyn Dailey was a typical teenager just starting her senior year in high school.She enjoyed helping out at church, spending time with friends — and trying her father’s patience.“She lived life to the fullest,” her father Dustin Dailey said.

“Just testing every inch of my body.”Maddalyn, 17, and her best friend were killed Friday when a pair of speeding vehicles cleaved their car in half at a Victorville intersection, authorities said.The California Highway Patrol is investigating whether the drivers who struck them were racing each other.If authorities confirm a speed contest was to blame, the two girls would be the latest to fall victim to Southern California’s rampant and deadly street racing culture, which has claimed scores of lives in the last 20 years.Authorities have not officially released the name of the second victim, but Maddalyn’s father identified her as Isabell Hill, 16.The two girls, who had just started their senior year, were hanging out at Maddalyn’s house that evening when she left to drive Isabell home, promising to be back for dinner, Dailey said.He heard the garage door shut, followed by the roar of a car exhaust.

Then he heard the impact.He rushed four houses down, to where Elmwood Drive meets Ridgecrest Road.“I saw everything: the ball of fire from the other car that hit it, her car in pieces,” he said.“They were ejected from it, thrown clear down the road.”A fire official told him the girls likely didn’t know what hit them, he said.According to the CHP, Maddalyn’s Acura was struck by a yellow Chevrolet Camaro and a black Dodge Charger that sped into the intersection.

The Camaro hit her first, causing major damage, followed by the Charger, which sustained minor damage, Officer Jebediah Wheeler, a CHP spokesman, wrote in an email.Authorities arreste...