BISCAYNE PARK, Fla. – A fiery crash on a street in residential Biscayne Park killed two people and left one person in critical condition Monday afternoon, authorities said.
The crash happened at around 12:50 p.m. near the intersection of Northeast Fifth Avenue and 119th Street in the small Miami-Dade suburb.
Images from Sky 10 showed a charred car in a driveway and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews at the scene.
“I heard a massive explosion,” said neighbor Jeffrey Slater.
The vehicle was so badly burnt and “split into pieces” to the point that authorities couldn’t immediately determine its make or model, police said.
“It looks like it was an electric vehicle and it hit a tree and then it spun into a house which, when it caught on fire, they (the house) had a carport and the carport also caught on fire,” Biscayne Park police Chief Luis Cabrera said.
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The carport belonged to Slater’s neighbor.
“I called her, she was screaming and crying and she was trapped in her backyard,” he said. “I ran across the street and I got her out of her backyard and brought her over here.”
Cabrera said the two initially-surviving victims both appeared to be ejected from the vehicle. He said one of them had to be airlifted to a local hospital.
One of the victims later died, Cabrera said Monday evening.
The other passenger was trapped inside the vehicle and died during the fire, Cabrera said.
The chief said the village’s police department will work with Miami-Dade police traffic homicide detectives to investigate the crash. He said authorities are looking at physical and video evidence in an effort to determine what led up to the crash.
Authorities haven’t yet publicly identified the victims.