LAKE TOWNSHIP, OH : A car crash in Stark County on Sunday, September 24th 2017

Investigators continue to try and confirm the identities of four people killed in a car crash in Stark County.

On Sunday at just after 5:30 p.m., a car traveling at a high rate of speed on State Route 43, just outside Hartville in Stark County's Lake Township, careened out of control, barrelled across a soybean field, and slammed into a large tree, ejecting one of the passengers.

The car erupted into a fireball, killing the driver and all three passengers. The heat from the fire was so intense it melted the siding on a house near where the car came to rest.

The homeowner said it appears the driver was going so fast, he had no control of the car once it left the roadway.

"We probably estimate about 120 miles an hour; that's what the firemen told me. If there's any solace to it, I guess would be the word, is they probably were killed on contact," said Mark Baker.

Aerial photos provided by the Ohio State Highway Patrol show the path the car cut through the farm field, after the driver lost control on a notorious curve along Route 43.


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Investigators release more information in Stark County crash that killed 4