SOLVED. Friends go to the mountains and some die, a guy named Matt tries to solve what happened to his friends. [s]

[Maria]

My friend told me about this book he had read and loved it. He doesn't remember the title or the author, but did give me the plot. I would love to find the book and buy it for him as a present. The plot: It's about a kid named Matt in high school. He’s best friends with a guy named Chris who is kinda like a troublemaker, he’s a nice guy but he’s poor so he’s labeled a bad boy. He’s also friends with the mayors son, who’s rich, and the first half of the book takes place of them planning for a party up in the mountains of Colorado, and they all get drunk. The story then jumps like a month later, Matt was supposed to drive down the mountain with his friends, but Bobby, who is the mayors son, and Chris and some other friends, they all went in Chris’s truck, and they died.Except for one boy named Jason who jumped out before they went off the cliffAnd basically everybody blames Chris and his family, and Matt is trying to find out what happened and how they died.
Thank you to anyone who can help!

[Maria]

I unfortunately don't have a year for when the book was published.

[Mai]

I'm pretty sure they're talking about the book you're looking for in this article:
https://mondomolly.wordpress.com/2016...
Found searching novel "mountains" "high school" "accident" "Chris" "truck" "Matt"

The book is The Accident by Todd Strasser

[Maria]

Thank you!!!