Two young men died and three others were seriously hurt after a crash Monday night in Spotsylvania County, officials say.
The five young men, all 19 or 20, were in a 2005 Toyota Highlander when the SUV ran off the road, crashed into a tree and caught fire, the Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday.
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Deputies were dispatched at about 7:55 p.m. to the 7000 block of Smith Station Road.
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SIGN UP According to police, "several heroic citizens" helped pull as many people out of the burning SUV as they could.
Two of the men died at the scene; the other three were in critical condition at local trauma centers.
The names of the dead were not immediately released.
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An investigation is underway but the driver appears to have been speeding, the sheriff's office said.
In a statement, Sheriff Roger Harris called the crash a tragedy and said he expressed "his deepest condolences" to the victims and their families.
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