Five teenagers were killed when the stolen car they were travelling in hit a tree at 118mph and burst into flames. An officer in a patrol car saw the blue 2012 Dodge Charger traveling at about 100mph east on East Main Street in Kalamazoo Township, Michigan.
According to police reports, the officer attempted stop the vehicle but gave up because the car was traveling too fast.
The dead have now been named as Cortavion Murphy, 15, Jaquarius Hegler, 15, Elexus Hillsman, 16, Marshawn Williams, 15, and Deztanee Cobb, 17.
Though police would not say who was behind the wheel, no drugs or alcohol were in the driver's system.
Cortavion Murphy's mother, Jamilla Mcferrin, told media she believed her son may have been the driver was not certain, the Kalamazoo Gazette reported.
Dash cam footage shows the patrol car coming across a fireball beside the road around two minutes later, three-quarters of a mile east of Sprinkle Road.
The vehicle had crossed into the opposite lane and left the north side of the road, went down a hill and into a yard, and glanced a telephone pole before rolling onto its side and hitting a large tree.
The car was traveling at 118mph when it came off the road. Tyre marks are visible on the road where the driver lost control.
A police officer spotted the Dodge Charger but gave up the chasing it because it was traveling too fast.
The two foot thick tree was uprooted and the car vehicle came to rest on its passenger side, with an approximately 8- to 10- foot section of the tree root and trunk lodged beneath the vehicle.
Police reports say 35 mph speed limit road was dry at the time of the crash and none of the passengers were wearing seatbelts.
Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Sgt. James Harrison estimated the Charger was going 114 to 118 mph before it crashed.
Details of the September 2 crash have now emerged through a freedom of information request by the Kalamazoo Gazette.
