Two people have died after a crash on Interstate 84 in Middlebury Thursday. State police say five people were travelling in a Chevrolet Cobalt when the vehicle lost control Eastbound near exit 17 just before 4:30pm. 

18-year old Kayla Nicole Veness and 20-year-old Daniel Brian Veness Jr., both of Waterbury, died in the crash.

State Police say a 45-year old Danbury man and a 24-year old sustained suspected serious injuries.  The driver, a 19-year old Waterbury man, sustained suspected minor injuries.  Four of the five people share a last name, though State Police did not have information on the relationship between the people in the vehicle.

State police say the vehicle was travelling at a high rate of speed prior to the crash.

Anyone who witnessed the crash is asked to call state police at 203-267-2200.