the the victims are all believed to be women, philadelphia police captain anthony ginnaldi spoke to witnesses who saw the tragedy take place. >> we have a witness on the scene that said that they saw the camaro, north bound on torresdale avenue extremely high rate of speed coming up over the crest of the hill here at broad street go airborne, and subsequently contacted the ground and lost control and struck the car and trailer. >> reporter: no bored whether alcohol was involved. authorities did call hazmat to the crews to the scene after herbicides leak from one of the trailers. i understand this was only a precaution. folks are starting to wake up and ask a lot of questions. i had residents from the area come by and tell me this is not the first accident they have seen here happen at this intersection of torresdale and rhawn street. they say the curve in the road does cause speed to accelerate when you cross this section of the intersects and one resident said her child actually went to this school and accident happen where fencing here around this charter school was actually taken out by fo

the the victims are all believed to be women, philadelphia police captain, anthony ginnaldi spoke with witt tonightes who say they saw the tragedy took place. >> we had an impact witness on the scene that said that they saw the the cam ross, north bound on torresdale avenue at a extremely high rate of the speed, coming up the hill here at torresdale street and got airborne and subsequently contacted the driver and lost control and struck the the park tractor trailer. >> reporter: no word on whether alcohol was involved, and we do not yet know the identity of the victims. the authorities, called in hazmat crews to the scene after herbicide leaked from one of the tractor trailers. i understand that this is just a precaution, and says penny pack creek and businesses and a school are nearby, nicole, again, this is a tragedy, three lives are lost but it could have been a lot worse, under the the bridge here there are more tractor trailers park here. there is an electrical station, a school and homes nearby. so kudos to the fire department and police officials who contained this firely blaze

philadelphia police captain anthony ginnaldi said second tractor trailer leak a herbicide and they havecaution. >> they are this concerned as they were extinguishing the fire some of the power may have run off down the gutter and they were containing that at the bottom. we were down there checking it out. >> reporter: again, we understand that is strictly a precautionary measure since the penny pack creek is close bias our businesses, and charter school which is right here, across the street from the crash. fire officials told us that this 8100 block of torresdale avenue will be shut down and will remain that way for the the rest of the day, as they investigate this crash and remove what remains. now we don't know whether alcohol was involved, as police, police department investigation continues, again, three people died, in this tragic crash here at torresdale avenue and rhawn street. live from holmesberg, cheri greg for kyw news radio cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> meanwhile another tragedy in northeast philadelphia when an elderly man is struck and killed while crossing the street. pol