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When a College Journey Ends in a Hardy County Tragedy The loss of a child is a grief that defies language. When that loss happens hundreds of miles from home, in the dark on a winding mountain road like Route 259, the pain is compounded by a thousand unanswered questions. For the families of the three James Madison University students killed in February 2023, the search for those answers has led to the courtroom. We look at cases like this not just as a wrongful death lawsuit, but as a fight to expose the environment that made such a catastrophe inevitable. In Hardy County, West Virginia, the physical cause of the crash was a vehicle veering off the road and striking a tree. But the legal cause—the “why” that matters to a jury—stretches back to the hours before the engine ever started. It reaches into the culture of an unrecognized fraternity, the provision of alcohol to minors, and a failure of leadership that allowed five young men to pile into a car under conditions that were never safe. If your family is facing a similar nightmare, you need to know that the legal ground in West Virginia is a battlefield.…