Two people dead, two injured after violent crash in Hialeah

A violent three-vehicle crash in Hialeah left two people dead and two others injured Tuesday night, officials said.

The crash happened just before 8 p.m. in the ​​400 block of Southeast 5th Street.

Hialeah Police officials said three cars were involved in the crash, including one that was parked and was unoccupied.

Two people were killed at the scene, while one injured person was taken by helicopter to Jackson Memorial Hospital and another was transported by ground ambulance.

Police identified the victims killed as 39-year-old Yarina Garcia Hernandez and Gloria Hernandez Molina, who was around 70. One of the people hospitalized was identified as Liliana Hernandez Molina, who's around 65.

Footage from the scene showed a damaged Nissan Murano crashed into another SUV.

A nearby resident, Martha, said she was very shaken up after the two cars collided right outside her home. She said one of them hit her husband’s vehicle, and the other other knocked down her fence.

"Well I’m glad the car was there because it stopped the car coming inside the house," she said. "I heard the sound and I came to the front, thinking that the accident was only here in the front but then my husband told me that there was a car in the backyard."

She said that car had three occupants, and that two of them were pronounced dead at the scene.

Martha and other neighbors described the sound of the impact like a bomb going off.

“It was extremely loud but we’re so used to hearing that sound from time to time," she said.

She said it's a very dangerous intersection and often times people speed through the street.

“I’m surprised they don’t have bumps or a four-way stop. It’s very dangerous," she said.

Detectives are investigating whether speeding was a factor in the crash.

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