Two young men, "as close as brothers," were supposed to be attending college in the fall. Instead, their families and classmates are mourning them after a fiery crash of an electric car on a curvy road on
Fort Lauderdale beach.
Driver Barrett Riley, of
Fort Lauderdale, and front-seat passenger Edgar Monserratt Martinez, of
Aventura, both 18 and students at Pine Crest School, were trapped in the burning wreck and died in Tuesday's crash, police and fire officials said. Another passenger, also 18, was taken to a hospital.
The trio was traveling in a Tesla Model S sedan along Seabreeze Boulevard before it crashed into a concrete wall, police said.
Fort Lauderdale Police said
excessive speed may have been a factor in the crash, but they could not say how fast the car was going, where the fire began or what caused it.
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