Surveillance video captured the moment a car collided with another vehicle, leaving one person dead and three others injured in a fiery crash in Lauderhill on Thursday morning.
The crash occurred around 4:30 a.m. in the 1400 block of Northwest 31st Avenue.
The surveillance video showed the moment a silver Chevy sedan was trying to make a left turn on Northwest 14th Street when a blue Mercedes slammed into it.
"It sounded like a bomb, like boom! And then it blacked out the store lights, went out and everything," one witness said.
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As the vehicles came to a stop, the video showed people running out of a nearby store to see what was going on. One man is seen running inside to grab a fire extinguisher then running back out with it to try to help.
The witness said it was total chaos.
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"The car, boom, and flames, it was like the movies you know, but it did blow up," he said.
Police and firefighters rushed to the scene to control the flames and rescue people trapped inside the vehicles.
NBC6 cameras captured the moment when a Lauderhill Police officer assisted a firefighter in breaking the window of one of the cars to rescue a victim while smoke still billowed from the fire.
Authorities have confirmed that the lone person inside the Chevy sedan has died, while the other three in the Mercedes were transported to a local hospital. One has since been released while the other two were in stable condition.
The man who was killed was later identified as 50-year-old Daryl L. Walker. The identities of those injured haven't been released.
There is no further information available regarding the cause of the crash.
