CLEVELAND (WJW) — A driver died after a violent crash on Interstate 90 overnight.

The accident, involving a Chevrolet Corvette, happened around 1:50 a.m. Tuesday in the westbound lanes near West 117th Street and left the vehicle in pieces.

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According to preliminary information from police, the Corvette was heading west when it went off the right side of the road and hit a tree and a guardrail.

“The impact caused the vehicle to separate, and a portion of it subsequently caught fire,” police told FOX 8 News.

The front end of the car landed in a grassy embankment. The back end of the car landed in the middle of a lane on I-90.

The car was on fire when the Cleveland Division of Fire arrived.

Police said the driver of the Corvette was thrown from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.

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He was identified by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office as 43-year-old Brian Petruccelli of South Amherst.

Speed is suspected to have been a contributing factor, however that still needs to be confirmed, police said.

Additionally, while police investigated the scene, a fire truck blocking traffic was struck by another vehicle. Fire crews tell FOX 8’s Stacey Frey that the driver involved in the second crash wasn’t badly injured but they were transported to the hospital.

The highway at West 117th Street reopened just after 4:30 a.m.

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