Students and staff at Coupeville schools are grieving over a 16-year-old student who was killed in a traffic accident Wednesday afternoon.

Tara Halterman, who was in 10th grade, was a passenger in a one-car rollover crash that occurred at about 4 p.m. on Crosby Road on North Whidbey. She succumbed to her injuries at the hospital.

Steve King, superintendent of Coupeville schools, sent out an email to the school community and explained that the district has additional mental health and grief counseling for both students and staff.

“As our community grieves for the loss of a young life, our thoughts remain with Tara’s family and friends, as well as classmates, staff, and others impacted by this event,” he wrote.

The driver of the car, also a 16-year-old girl, appeared in Island County Juvenile Court April 25. Island County Superior Court Judge Carolyn Cliff found probable cause existed to believe she may have committed the crime of vehicular homicide.

Cliff set the girl’s bail at $5,000. The judge said she was certain that the teenager, who is an Oak Harbor resident, was hurting both physically and emotionally but that the case has “grim facts.”

The trooper arrived at the scene of the crash at about 4 p.m. to find a 2014 Subaru Legacy off the roadway close to the intersection of Airline Way and Northwest Crosby Avenue. The trooper wrote that Halterman wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the car. She suffered a serious head injury and paramedics performed CPR on her. The Life Flight helicopter was called to the scene, but Halterman was later pronounced dead at WhidbeyHealth Medical Center.

The State Patrol memo on the accident states that the driver was injured and treated at the hospital. A third passenger, also a 16-year-old girl, was injured but evaluated by paramedics at the scene and released.

The driver told the trooper that she saw an oil patch in the road and went in the other lane to avoid it, but then she saw an oncoming car. She told the trooper that she overcorrected and lost control, leading to the rollover crash, the report states.

The trooper, however, noted that he didn’t see an oil patch on the road nor any markings to show the vehicle braking or going into the oncoming lane, the report states.

Investigators do not know if alcohol or drugs were factors in the crash. A judge authorized a search warrant to obtain the girl’s blood for testing.