Driver dies trapped in burning car after Concord crash
The car left Fisk Road and struck a stone wall and trees before catching fire, according to investigators. State fire officials and Concord police are investigating together.
CONCORD, N.H. — A driver was trapped and killed when a car left Fisk Road in Concord and caught fire on the night of Nov. 13, the New Hampshire State Fire Marshal's Office told WMUR.
The driver has not been publicly identified. The fire marshal's office said an autopsy had been scheduled and that investigators expect to be able to confirm who the victim was, according to WMUR. The office and Concord police are handling the investigation jointly, the station reported. No cause for the crash has been released.
According to WMUR, the preliminary account from investigators has the car ending up in a field, where it burned, after veering off the road and striking a stone wall and trees. No other vehicle was involved.
Concord NH Patch, which drew much of its account from police and fire radio traffic, reported that officers were sent shortly before 9:30 p.m. to a report of a burning vehicle in the city's West End. Flames had consumed the car by the time the first officer pulled up, and a bystander described hearing a voice from it, the site reported.
"The hood is smashed in," an officer at the scene said, according to Patch.
A battalion commander asked for an additional engine so crews would not run short of water, and the fire commander declared the driver dead shortly before 9:45 p.m., Patch reported. Police shut the road as firefighters put out the blaze, and the fire marshal's office was summoned to the scene, the site said.