An early-morning car crash at the Amity Road-Whalley Avenue split left two people dead.
The crash occurred around 5 a.m. Thursday.
Here’s what happened, according to police spokesman Officer David Hartman:
A man was driving a 2011 Hundai Sonata registered in Ansonia westbound approaching the split. He had two passengers.
The driver was speeding, according to witnesses, and “failed to negotiate a turn on to either road, struck the curb and crashed through” the Mobil station, striking an “overhang structure above a set of gas pumps.”
Fortunately, that did not result in an explosion or fire.
But two of the car’s occupants died. A third was ejected; rescuers found him in a nearby parking lot. He went by ambulance to the hospital, “where he remained conscious and alert” and had “non-life-threatening” injuries. Police are at this point withholding the identities of the car’s occupants.
Authorities have closed Amity Road at the intersection while the police department’s crash team investigates the accident. Whalley remains open, though Hartman said to expect possible temporary closures. A city building official was examining the gas station overhand this morning. Firefighters used “an absorbent material” to remove a small amount of fluid that had apparently spilled from the car.