{Ohio}: 2 killed, 1 injured in fiery turnpike crash

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2 killed, 1 injured in fiery turnpike crash
http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2013/11/29/2-killed-1-injured-in-fiery-turnpike-crash.html

FREMONT — Two people in a minivan were killed on the Ohio Turnpike near Fremont on Thanksgiving night after a car traveling more than 125 mph - with state troopers in pursuit - rear-ended the minivan and both vehicles burst into flames, the Ohio Highway Patrol said.
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The car was moving at such a high speed that state troopers say the driver likely did not realize they were in pursuit, far behind. ... "He was traveling that fast," said Sgt. Matt Davis, who added that patrol cars, which can typically travel at up to 130 mph, couldn't get close to the speeding car.

WTOL-TV reported that officials said the speeding vehicle was traveling between 125 mph and 150 mph and hit at least three other vehicles over the course of 17 miles.

Andrew D. Gans, 24, of Kent, Ohio, who allegedly was driving the speeding car, was taken to Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center with minor injuries.

Minor injuries? What was he driving?

The car, a 2013 Infiniti M56, and the minivan, a 2009 Chrysler Town and Country, had both been traveling west on the turnpike in Sandusky County's Rice Township, according to the patrol.

More:

Victims of fiery turnpike crash identified as Toledo couple
http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2013/11/29/2-killed-1-injured-in-fiery-turnpike-crash.html

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1. driver has been charged

Fremont (OH) News-Messenger story

AP story

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. I'm adding an update as well.

Man held over fiery car deaths
http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2013/11/30/Man-held-over-fiery-car-deaths.html

Toledo couple killed on turnpike Thanksgiving night ‘very sweet’
BY TAYLOR DUNGJEN
BLADE STAFF WRITER

The 24-year-old man whose speeding car crashed into a minivan Thursday night on the Ohio Turnpike near Fremont, killing a Toledo couple, faces two counts of vehicular homicide with a reckless-driving specification.
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Killed in the fiery crash in Sandusky County’s Rice Township, about three miles west of the turnpike’s State Rt. 53 interchange for Fremont, were Wilbur and Margaret McCoy, both 77.
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The van and the 2013 Infiniti M56 driven by Mr. Gans burst into flames after the collision, highway patrol Lt. Anne Ralston said. ... The Toledo couple were wearing seat belts and were trapped inside the burning van, the highway patrol said.
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Coroner’s investigators were not initially sure how many bodies were in the burned vehicles, and thus initially ordered that no blankets be placed to shield the wrecked vehicles from view because that might compromise the investigation, the lieutenant said. There also was a debris field about a mile long, he said, because the Infiniti had clipped several other vehicles before the final, catastrophic crash.