There was a song about that same time about a boy who died in a car crash I thought it was that one ...
This one?
Wreck on the Highway--Roy Acuff (1942)
I’ll have to repeat the songs like that I posted earlier.
Could be “Tell Laura I Love Her” except he deliberately was in a public car race.
Perhaps you were thinking “TEEN Angel”, but that is the boy singing about his girl dying from the car/train wreck.