UPDATE 6:08 P.M.
KnightNews.com has confirmed UCF student John Grosso died in Friday morning’s accident. He was 21.
His passenger, Jose Samuel Gonzalez, 21, also died in the crash. Gonzalez was not a student, according to UCF.
A KnightNews.com crew went to the scene of the crash at North Tanner Road near Lake Price Drive, and interviewed an eyewitness who lives right where the crash happened.
We are editing that video story to explain how this happened right now, and hope to have it up soon.
KnightNews.com extends ours sympathies to the victims’ friends and family, and invites anyone who’d like to share their memories to e-mail us at news@knightnews.com, so we can try to include them in the memorial story we are working on producing this weekend, if any of friends are ready to share their thoughts that soon.
UPDATE 2:08 P.M.
KnightNews.com has learned the names of the two college-aged men who died in a tragic car crash behind UCF early this morning.
Sadly, it appears at least one of the victims is a UCF student. We are choosing to withhold the names for a bit, until we can be sure their family, and close friends find out in the proper way during this difficult time.
Both victims were 21-years-old.
Sometime before 4 a.m. reports show the driver, from Plant City, was going down Tanner Road at a high rate of speed, lost control and hit a curve and then a mail box before slamming into a ditch, striking a utlity pole and and ending up overturned on the road.
The 2003 Nissan coup came to rest on Lake Price Drive.
The passenger who died in the crash was from Dover, Fla.
KnightNews.com will continue following this tragic story, and will release the victims’ names once the family members are properly told first by law enforcement.
Troopers are waiting for toxicology results before they will say whether alcohol may have contributed to the crash.
Check back for updates on this sad story.
