Maybe not, but there seems to be important context missing from the article. I suspect multiple cars, likely involving the one carrying the football players as well, street racing. I could certainly be wrong, of course, but just a hunch based upon what I see everyday. It’s rare to get on a highway these days without seeing multiple cars chasing each other at ridiculously high speed through traffic. And most nights, I hear them racing on nearby side streets. Also a ton of crashes caused by them.
Some of this has always occurred, naturally, but ever since the “defund the police” madness this behavior has exploded, as has crime in general.
Interesting update. The driver of the other car is a chick with a need for speed...
https://www.the-sun.com/sport/11850451/who-cori-clingman-maryland-crash-killed-football-players/