4 Maine college students killed in crash after car strikes tree, erupts in flames - ABC News

Four Maine Maritime Academy students were killed aft their car crashed into a histrion and erupted into flames successful the municipality of Castine connected Saturday, Maine State Police confirmed.

Three different students, including the operator Joshua Goncalves-Radding, were wounded and taken to section hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, constabulary said.

Maine Police identified the victims arsenic Brian Kenealy, 20, of York, Maine; Chase Fossett, 21, of Gardiner, Maine; Luke Simpson, 22, of Rockport, Massachusetts; and Riley Ignacio-Cameron, 20, of Aquinnah, Massachusetts.

Goncalves-Radding, 20, was driving southbound connected Route 166 successful a 2013 Range Rover erstwhile the conveyance near the roadworthy and struck a tree.

Police identified 20-year-old Noelle Tavares of North Falmouth, Massachusetts, and 20-year-old Dominick Gecoya of Middleton, Massachusetts, arsenic the 2 different radical wounded successful the crash.

In a connection posted connected the school’s website, Maine Maritime Academy President Jerry Paul confirmed that 4 of the school’s students died successful the crash, saying, “Our assemblage is grieving for these young lives and for their families.”

Maine State Police has launched a afloat probe into the crash.