Two persons are dead after a crash at 12:51 a.m. Friday, Jan. 15, at 55th Street and Freeman Avenue in Kansas City, Kan., a police spokesman said.
When police arrived at the scene of the single-vehicle crash, they found a man in his mid-60s and a woman in her late 40s dead from their injuries, the spokesman said.
The preliminary investigation showed that the victims were traveling southbound on 55th Street at a high rate of speed, the vehicle left the roadway, hit a tree stump and caught fire, resulting in a single-vehicle fatality accident, the spokesman said.
The identity of the victims will not be released until there has been a positive identification and family has been notified, police said.
The crash is under investigation by the Kansas City, Kan., Police Department’s Traffic Support Unit-Critical Collision Response Team.