Crime & Safety
Man, 40, Likely Driver ID'd By Cops In Double Fatal Car Crash Sunday, 2nd Victim Is Woman, Not Yet ID'd: NHPD
Cops say Nicky Perez was driver who hit a tree at 3 a.m. on Grasso and later died at the hospital; a woman found dead in car yet to be ID'd.
NEW HAVEN, CT — Police have identified one of the people involved in the double-fatal Sunday morning crash on Grasso Blvd.
Police said that Nicky Perez, 40, was likely the driver in the one-vehicle crash into a tree. Perez was taken by private vehicle to Yale New Haven Hospital after the 3 a.m. fiery crash and later died from his injuries.
The other fatality was a woman.
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It was just before 3 a.m. when cops were called to the 500 block of Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, between Adeline Street and Printer's Lane, on a report of a car accident in which a vehicle struck a tree and caught fire, police said.
New Haven firefighters extinguished the blaze. Once the fire was put out, firefighters discovered a body in the rear seat of the car, police said. New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson said Tuesday that the body was that of a woman.
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Jacobson said that while police do have a tentative identification on the woman, police are waiting until the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has "a few more things to confirm her name," and once confirmed, police will release her identity.
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