Police say a North Carolina teenager who was killed in a car crash, was text messaging at the time of the accident.

According to Melissa Williams, spokeswoman for the Ashville Police Department, investigators learned that 16 year-old Ashley Johnson, of Arden, who died Tuesday at a local hospital, was texting on her cell phone when the crash occurred. Authorities say Johnson’s car was going 52 miles per hour in a 45 mph zone. Investigators found a message on Johnson’s cell phone that was being typed at the time of the accident.

The driver of the pickup truck that Johnson collided with sustained non-life-threatening injuries. Johnson died the day after the crash in a local hospital. No one will be charged in the wreck, police say.

Texting while driving became illegal in North Carolina in December.

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