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Teen crashes into van, kills father and daughter after 'refusing to stop texting while driving’

A defiant teenager ignored her friends' pleas to stop texting at the wheel moments before she ran a red light and crashed, killing a father and his young daughter, prosecutors said.

Carlee R. Bollig, 17, allegedly told her friends to leave her alone before running a red light and smashing into Charles Maurer's minivan moments before the horror crash, the Star Tribune reported.

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