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Authorities are indicating that records show a 16-year-old girl who died in a fatal car crash was texting on her phone moments before impact.

Kayla Preuss, of Highland, was driving on the Interstate 10 Freeway in Redlands when she lost control of her car and crashed. She died of head injuries.

Authorities say Preuss had been driving drunk and was speeding. But another factor may have contributed to the crash.

Phone records show Preuss was texting just before the accident. Her cell phone, which was flipped open, was found resting on the floorboard by her feet.

A group of teenage boys in Redlands, California, have been arrested on suspicion of raping two girls, ages 14 and 15, who they lured back to a house with a promise of alcohol.

Redlands police spokesman Carl Baker said the girls, ages 14 and 15, told investigators they were walking home at about 5 p.m. Friday when they came across a group of teenage boys.

They asked the girls if they wanted to drink with them, which they did, Baker said.

“The next thing you know, one of the boys was taking off their pants and sexually assaulting them,” Baker said.

After the boys argued, Baker said, two of them walked the girls home.

But when they got to the home of one of the girls, they assaulted them again, Baker said.