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| Male driver Francisco Jaquez, 59, and his son died in the fiery T-bone collision |
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) -
The two people killed in a fiery crash on Louisburg Road in Raleigh on Sunday morning have been identified as a 59-year-old man and a boy, according to police.
The crash happened just before 11 a.m. Sunday in the 5200 block of Louisburg Road, near Fox Road.
Authorities say the driver of a car that caught fire was pronounced deceased at the crash scene. The driver was identified as Francisco Jaquez, of Raleigh. The passenger was a juvenile. Police did not release the boy's age or name.
Three people in the vehicle that hit Jaquez's car were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
According to police, the vehicle being driven by Jaquez pulled out from a stop on Fox Road onto Louisburg Road and directly into the path of another vehicle, which was being driven by a 21-year-old man. The second vehicle slammed into the driver's side of Jaquez's car at approximately 50 mph. Jaquez's car immediately caught on fire after impact and both he and the boy inside were unable to get out and both died at the scene, a police report shows.
Police originally said that only one person, Jaquez, had died in the crash, but later corrected the information to say that a boy in his car had also died.
Inbound lanes of Louisburg Road were closed between Fox Road and Sweet Shade Trail, near Spring Forest Road.
The road was open and the scene was clear by 5 p.m.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) -
Authorities now say that two people died in a car that caught fire in a two-car crash on Louisburg Road in Raleigh Sunday morning.
The crash happened just before 11 a.m. Sunday in the 5200 block of Louisburg Road, near Fox Road.
Authorities say the driver of a car that caught fire was pronounced deceased at the crash scene.
Later Sunday afternoon, Raleigh police announced that a second body was found in the car that burned.
Three people in the second vehicle were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The car that caught fire appeared to be a Chrysler 300 while the other car was a silver Volkswagen sedan.
Inbound lanes of Louisburg Road were closed between Fox Road and Sweet Shade Trail, near Spring Forest Road.
The road was open and the scene was clear by 5 p.m.
No other information has been released.
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Neighbors complain about Raleigh intersection where 2 died in fiery crash
By: Zak Dahlheimer
Updated: Aug 06, 2018 06:21 AM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) - Donna and Lowery Perry described what they saw down the street from their home at the intersection of Louisburg Road and Fox Road Sunday morning.
"There was a trail of flames to like the middle of the intersection," Donna Perry said. "The back end of the car was like a big ball of fire."
Both saw a two-car crash in which one car caught fire at the intersection, killing two people and sending three others to the hospital.
Raleigh police say that the driver of the car that caught fire was pronounced dead at the crash scene.
Later Sunday afternoon, Raleigh police announced that a second body was found in the car that burned.
Three people in the second vehicle were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
"You just hear the boom," Lowery Perry said of the crash that was reported around 11 a.m.
While the cause of this crash remains unknown, the Perrys said crashes are familiar and too close to home.
"We don't go out unless we're going with the flow of traffic," Donna Perry said. "Then you'd have to be careful, because the people coming over that hill down there, they're not going the speed limit. They're way over the speed limit."
The same goes for Bob Martins, who lives on the other side of where the crash happened.
"My concern is, and my complaint is, every day the same. An accident every day," Martins said.
Residents CBS 17 talked with said they'd like to see a traffic light installed at the intersection, which they believe will make it safer for the community.
"It shouldn't have come to this," Martins said. "Taking a life before they do something."
Officials with the North Carolina Department of Transportation will be hosting a public meeting Tuesday to talk proposed intersection improvements at Fox Road and Louisburg Road.
The meeting was planned before the crash.
The meeting is scheduled from 5 to 7 p.m. at St. Matthews Baptist Church at 5410 Louisburg Road in Raleigh.