DANVILLE, Va. – Authorities have yet to identify the two people who died in a fiery crash in Danville Saturday morning. Both bodies have been sent to the state medical examiner’s office for positive identification.

Danville Police say speed was a factor in the single-vehicle crash.

Officers responded to the intersection of Piney Forest Road and Seminole Trail just before 8 a.m. Saturday. When police arrived, they found a four-door Nissan sedan engulfed in flames. The driver and an occupant were pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say their initial investigation shows the car was traveling north on Piney Forest Road at a high rate of speed when it left the roadway, struck two telephone poles, and caught on fire.

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