Two teenage girls are dead, and three others were seriously hurt after a speeding car crashed into a tree and burst into flames in the early morning hours of Sunday in Sloughhouse, a rural community in Sacramento County.
The California Highway Patrol confirmed the crash occurred around 12:29 a.m. on Scott Road, north of Latrobe Road, a remote stretch of road located west of Deer Creek Hills Nature Preserve.
The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire Department responded to the scene after being alerted through an iPhone crash detection notification, one of the few ways authorities were notified, given the isolated location of the road.
The driver and the front passenger did not survive
According to the CHP, the driver of the vehicle was a 16-year-old girl who died at the scene. A 14-year-old girl seated in the front passenger seat also did not survive…