{"id":115294,"date":"2026-02-16T15:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115294\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:51:15","slug":"18-year-old-driver-dies-in-car-crash-fire-in-erie-sunday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115294\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old driver dies in car crash, fire in Erie Sunday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ERIE, Colo. \u2014 One 18-year-old died and another was seriously hurt after a car crash which engulfed the vehicle in flames in the early morning hours on Sunday, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eriepolicedepartment\/posts\/pfbid02pGTHNPNSTjCkoD286seMpbqahv8Ngx4ZSsuqfwcH3fDtFMbCwV7QKXA45guCSnm4l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Town of Erie Police Department said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just after 12 a.m. Sunday, Erie police officers were called to a single-vehicle crash on Erie Parkway where they found the car on fire. Officers extricated the driver and a passenger from the vehicle. The driver, an 18-year-old man from Commerce City, was taken to a nearby hospital where he was later pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p>The passenger was also an 18-year-old man from Commerce City. He was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, according to Erie police.  <\/p>\n<p>The initial investigation into what happened found the driver was speeding on eastbound Erie Parkway when it crossed the median into westbound lanes and hit a bridge guardrail. <\/p>\n<p>Erie Parkway was closed in both directions from Colliers Boulevard to Ambrose Street until around 9 a.m. Sunday. This was the second serious wreck in this area over the weekend, according to Erie police.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Coloradans making a difference | Denver7 featured videos<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-left\">Denver7 is committed to making a difference in our community by standing up for what&#8217;s right, listening, lending a helping hand and following through on promises. See that work in action, in the videos above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE, Colo. \u2014 One 18-year-old died and another was seriously hurt after a car crash which engulfed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[54846,54847,54848,136,138,137,54849,54850,7248,54851,48003,54842],"class_list":["post-115294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-ambrose-street","tag-colliers-boulevard","tag-commerce-city-colorado","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-parkway","tag-erie-police-crash-team","tag-erie-police-department","tag-erie-police-department-crash-team","tag-mountain-view-fire-rescue","tag-town-of-erie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}