JUPITER FARMS, FL : 2 victims of Jupiter Farms crash ID’d on Sunday, March 26th 2017

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office identified the two people killed in a wreck with a tractor-trailer on the Beeline Highway.

Dennis Wagner, 65, died at the scene, while Diane Blackwell Wagner, 63, died later at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach.

The two victims lived together in Canal Point, according to the sheriff’s office.

The duo’s Kia Sportage SUV was heading southbound in the inside lane of Beeline Highway, as was the tractor-trailer, which was carrying liquid oxygen, according to sheriff’s spokeswoman Teri Barbera. The truck had just finished filling its tanks with the chemical.

The SUV passed another car at a high rate of speed, according to a witness, then collided with the rear of the tractor-trailer violently, becoming attached. The tractor-trailer traveled another 100 feet before stopping.

The driver of the tractor-trailer, Ray Chatman from Texas, was uninjured, and no charges were filed in the crash, according to the sheriff’s office.

The wreck, which occurred at around 2:40 p.m. west of Pratt Whitney Road, shut down traffic on the Beeline for more than an hour Saturday. The backup stretched past the Pratt Whitney / Innovation Drive intersection.

The crash was the second fatal incident along the Beeline Highway in the past month. On March 16, two burned bodies were found in a brush fire along a remote stretch of the road. Identification of the bodies has not been released and the sheriff’s office is investigating that incident as a homicide.

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2 victims of Jupiter Farms crash ID’d