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Date: 
Thursday, January 16, 2014

One person is dead and another is seriously injured after their vehicle crashed into a tree early Friday morning.

It happened along East 290th Street in Wickliffe.

According to police, the driver Timothy Roper, age 40, was taken to the hospital in critical condition where he later died.

The passenger Dominick Gromek Jr. 35 was flown to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The accident is still under investigation, but police said speed was a factor.