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Rappahannock, Virginia |Two Airlifted in U.S. 211 Accident

Two young men extracted by rescuers from a car with Maryland license plates were airlifted to area medical centers just after 6 p.m. Monday, where both were reported Tuesday to be in critical but stable condition in the facilities’ intensive care units.

The driver of the car was identified by Virginia State Police Trooper Don Corbin as Hans Christian Shankle, 24, whose car is registered to a address in Hagerstown, Md., but who Corbin said has family in Sperryville. Shankle was transported by helicopter to University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville.

Corbin identified the passenger as Joseph Anthony Ruffner, whose age was not known, and whom Corbin said was believed to be living in Sperryville. A second helicopter took Ruffner to Winchester Medical Center.

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