Danbury, CT : Three killed and two others injured before a car crashing into a utility pole at Mill Plain Road on Saturday, 3rd September, 2016

Police are piecing together clues as to why the driver of a car full of young people fled from police early Saturday morning before crashing into a utility pole on Mill Plain Road, killing three occupants and leaving two others

injured.
Authorities had not yet officially identified the five victims Saturday evening, but said the three who were killed included the driver and two other men.
Saturday afternoon, three men’s names were written at an impromptu memorial near the utility pole for the victims of the crash: Nelson Osegueda, Ray Rivera and Waner Nunez.
An official familiar with the investigation, who was not authorized to confirm them, recognized them but could not confirm the spelling.
Two women who were also in the car were hurt, but neither suffered life-threatening injuries, officials said. One of the women sustained serious “leg fractures,” said Assistant Fire Chief Mark Omasta.
Few details have emerged about the victims, but Osegueda and Nunez appear to be Danbury residents in their mid and late twenties based on searches of public records and social media accounts.
Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton said the mangled white Nissan Maxima, which crashed into a metal pole at the intersection of Mill Plain and Milestone roads, was registered in Danbury. Boughton believes those inside were in

their 20s.
“It was a horrific scene,” Boughton said. “When any young people are caught up in this, it makes it that much more tragic. I’ve never seen a car destroyed as badly as that car was.
“Any time you ride to a (crash) site and there are fatalities like that, and you have three people under sheets, it’s sad and tragic.”
The chase began around 4:20 a.m. when a Putnam County, N.Y., deputy sheriff saw the Maxima swerving over the center line of Route 6 in Southeast, N.Y., heading toward Danbury.
The officer tried to pull the car over about three-quarters of a mile from the Connecticut state line believing the driver was intoxicated, but the Maxima continued toward Danbury below the speed limit, according to a news

release from the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department.
According to the release, the Maxima accelerated about a quarter-mile from the border. As the chase moved into Connecticut, the officer slowed down and alerted Danbury police, but the Maxima sped up, police said. About

15 seconds later, it sideswiped the utility pole on the driver’s side, police said.
Danbury Police Lt. Joseph LeRose said his department was alerted to the chase at 4:23 a.m. and arrived at the crash site at 4:31 a.m. LeRose said the chase began near Kas’s Restaurant and Bar on Route 6 (also known as

Danbury Road) in Southeast, about two miles west of the crash site.
According to Putnam County police, the officer’s average speed during the chase was about 65 miles per hour with top speeds of over 80 miles per hour for about 15 seconds. The Maxima’s speed at the time of the crash is

not yet known.
“The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office is conducting an internal review of the events preceding (the crash),” the release said.
Putnam County police said the officer who pursued the crash was not injured in the accident, but was taken to Putnam Hospital Center in Carmel, N.Y., for observation and released.
Boughton said toxicology results would eventually determine if the driver had been drunk or on drugs, but said whatever the case, people must obey police.
“Frankly, when an officer turns their lights on and asks you to pull over, you have to pull over,” he said.
All five passengers were extricated from the car by the Danbury Fire Department, which tore the roof off the Maxima, LeRose said. He added it was difficult to describe the damage because of the extrication, but there was

“quite a debris field.”
LeRose said the investigation would take a long time.
“It’s a very, very complicated accident, so it’s going to take some time,” LeRose said. “As the investigation unfolds, we will give more of the details. Right now, we need to take care of the families as best as we can and be

respectful to them.”
Boughton praised the city’s response to the accident.
“The first responders and public safety officials did an outstanding job cutting the people out of car and cutting the individuals out as fast as possible,” Boughton said.

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Three killed in Danbury crash after police chase in New York