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Deadly crash in Mount Pleasant adds second victim

The driver died from injuries on Monday
Posted at 11:50 AM, May 29, 2018
and last updated 2018-05-29 13:27:19-04

MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis. (AP) -- Authorities say a second person has died as a result of a crash into a vacant fire station in Mount Pleasant.

Twenty-seven-year-old Julio Cesar Miramontes Jimenez, of Mount Pleasant, died Monday of injuries suffered in Sunday's crash. Police say Jimenez was driving the vehicle that crashed into the vacant South Shore Fire Department building.

A passenger, 22-year-old Lily Ventura Samarin, of Racine, died at the scene of the crash. Authorities say the preliminary investigation shows speed was a factor in the crash.