One person was killed early Tuesday morning when a small sedan crashed into a traffic light pole on Route 1 in Falmouth and burst in flames.
Roads were icy at the time and investigators are attempting to reconstruct the crash to determine if weather played a role.
No information was immediately available about the person who died. Falmouth police said they are working with the state medical examiner’s office to identify the person and determine the cause of death.
Falmouth police Chief John Kilbride said in a phone interview Tuesday afternoon that he would not share further information about the victim or type of car because the victim’s family needed to be notified.
He said it was a single-car crash and no one else was involved.
Falmouth police got a call at about 2:20 a.m. to report an apparent traffic accident. They arrived to find the vehicle engulfed in flames after apparently striking a pole at 309 Route 1. The crash was cleared at around 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Kilbride said.