New Year’s Day accident in Dayton, Ohio kills five including a child under the age of 2

Ten minutes after midnight on New Year’s Day, a car carrying four adults and one child under the age of two crashed after it hit railroad tracks in Dayton, Ohio.

Dayton police said a 1996 Pontiac was discovered on its side and tangled in a business fence in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

Police Lt. John Bardun said, initially they thought only two adult males and two adult females were in the car, but it was not until firefighters removed the adults, the saw the child buried at the bottom of the car.

Crash investigators are reportedly still at the scene, but police believe the car was travelling at a high rate of speed when it came up to a set of railroad tracks and the car hit the tracks and it went airborne.

They also believe that when the car came down, it took out a fire hydrant then skidded onto its side and the skid carried it into a pole and then the fence. The car rolled up about twenty to thirty feet of the fence, according to reports.

The identities of the victims have not yet been released