Deputies: 19-year-old dies after car catches fire as result of hitting tree

MENDON, N.Y. — A 19-year-old has died after Monroe County sheriff’s deputies say his car caught on fire after it hit a tree in Mendon Ponds Park.

Deputies say Guillermo Martinez Gallego was driving on Hopkins Point Road in Mendon Ponds Park when he left the roadway and hit a tree.

Deputies and the fire department got there and found the car on fire and worked quickly to put the fire out. Deputies say they found him dead inside the car after the fire was put out…

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