Route 2 westbound has reopened in East Hartford after a fatal accident caused lane closures Saturday morning.
One person is dead and three are seriously injured after a car drove off the road between exits 5A and 5C, police said.
The crash happened shortly after 6 this morning.
According to witness Juan Velez, who was driving to work at the time of the crash, the car swerved from the far left lane to the the right lane, then went off the road and into a ditch.
"The whole back window was blown out, the passenger rear window was blown out," Velez said. "The car looked like an accordion the way it was wrapped around the tree."
According to Velez, the man and woman in the back seat were ejected, and the female driver and male front-seat passenger were pinned behind the dashboard.
Velez said the driver was conscious and alert, the two backseat passengers were conscious but unresponsive and that the male front-seat passenger did not appear to have a pulse.
"It's one of the worst things I've seen," Velez said.
It was not immediately clear which passenger had died.
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