Authorities are working to identify a person killed in a fiery overnight car crash in Rocky River. The driver was speeding east on Lake Road about 3:30 a.m. and lost control of the BMW and ran off the road at Cornwall Road, Ohio State Highway Patrol Lt. Antonio Matos said.
The car struck a concrete wall, spun around, crashed into a home and flipped upside down, then burst into flames, Matos said.
A man owned the car, but Matos said the body was too badly burned for investigators to determine if the driver was a man or a woman.
One person inside the home at the time of the accident was unharmed. The impact of the crash left cracks in the home's outside wall, and the meter box and utility wires connected to the house were destroyed, Matos said.
Investigators do not know what caused the driver to lose control of the car, or how fast the car was traveling. Troopers will recreate the scene of the accident Friday morning.
The car's charred, mangled frame sat on a flatbed tow truck in the parking lot of Bearden's Diner Friday as crews cleaned up debris from the yard.
