2 dead, 1 critical after car slams into tree, catches fire in Biscayne Park – NBC 6 South Florida

Two people were killed and a third was critically injured after a car slammed into a tree and caught fire in a Biscayne Park neighborhood Monday afternoon.

The crash happened around 12:50 p.m. in the area of Northeast 5th Avenue and 119th Street.

Biscayne Park Police said the vehicle slammed into a tree and split up before ending up in the front yard of a home.

“Like a missile hitting. A massive explosion,” neighbor Jeffrey Salter said. “The fire was billowing up. Black smoke. Things were popping. It was pretty dramatic.”

When officers arrived, the car was on fire and a person was inside. That person died from their injuries.

Two other people were taken to a local hospital from the scene in extremely critical condition, police said. Officials later confirmed that one of those people died from their injuries.

Police haven’t released the identities of anyone involved.

Investigators believe the car is an electric vehicle but because it broke up into so many pieces, they couldn’t immediately determine the make or model.

“It was a vehicle, looks like an electric vehicle, hit a tree and then spun into a house, which when it caught on fire it had a car port and the car port also caught on fire,” Biscayne Park Police Chief Luis Cabrera told reporters.

Footage from the scene showed what remained of the car, which was severely damaged from the fire. A parked car at the home also appeared to have been damaged by the flames.

Biscayne Park Police is working with Miami-Dade Police to investigate the crash.