UPDATE: Victims Identified in Fatal Crash with Dump Truck Near Bridgeville

Fatal Crash

UPDATE: The Delaware State Police have identified 19-year-old Blem Lopez-Lopez from Millsboro, Delaware, and 23-year-old Andrea Reyes Castellanos from Honduras, as the people who died in the two-vehicle fatal crash that occurred Friday afternoon near Bridgeville.

The crash remains under investigation.

 

BRIDGEVILLE, Del. – A two-vehicle crash near Bridgeville killed two people Friday.

Delaware State Police say a Toyota Camry was traveling east on Seashore Highway, when for unknown reasons, the vehicle entered the westbound lane of travel and collided with the front of a Peterbilt dump truck.

After the collision, the Peterbilt became engulfed in fire.

The driver of the Camry, a 19-year-old man from Millsboro, was pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger, a 23-year-old woman from Honduras, was taken to an area hospital where she died.

The driver of the Peterbilt, a 58-year-old man from Ridgely, Maryland, was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

A third vehicle, a Peterbilt tractor and a loaded car trailer traveling behind the dump truck, was able to avoid the collision and the driver was uninjured.

Delaware State Police continue to investigate the crash.

This article was originally published on Sept. 11 at 8:45 p.m. 

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