Police investigate a fatal crash in Doraville on Thursday, September 8, 2016. (Credit: Channel 2 Action News)
Airborne truck strikes trees in fiery fatal crash
3:29 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016
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The truck became engulfed in flames after it fell to the ground, the Georgia State Patrol said.
Berduo-Gonzalez and a passenger died at the scene.
The truck was still ablaze when Doraville police responded.
Two people were killed early Thursday after a truck went airborne, crashed into multiple trees and caught fire in DeKalb County, authorities said.
Yudrian Yelson Berduo-Gonzalez, 26, of Atlanta, and a passenger were in a 2008 Ford Super Duty pickup truck traveling east on Tilly Mill Road when it left the roadway for unknown reasons and struck an unoccupied 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer parked in a private driveway.
The impact sent the Ford flying into the air.
“The truck then … struck multiple trees,” Georgia State Patrol spokeswoman Tracey Watson said. “The truck became engulfed in flames after it fell to the ground.”
The truck was still ablaze when Doraville police responded to a call about the accident just before 1 a.m. near Harbor Valley Drive.
“The fire department quickly responded to the scene and put out the fire, but it was too late,” Doraville police spokesman Gene Callaway said.
Berduo-Gonzalez and the passenger, who has not been identified, died at the scene, authorities said.
The Georgia State Patrol is investigating the accident.
No other details were released.