14-year-old driver killed in crash

? A 14-year-old Wichita girl is dead and her passenger was in critical condition Friday after the girl lost control of a car she was driving at a high rate of speed and crashed into a tree.

The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office says the girl was driving fast on a dirt road around 11 a.m. Friday when the 1972 Ford Mustang went airborne at an intersection. After it landed the car hit a tree about a quarter-mile away.

Officials say neither the driver, who died at the scene, nor the 22-year-old woman riding with her was wearing a seat belt.

Alcohol didn’t appear to be involved.