Two people are dead following a pair of car accidents early Saturday morning on 45 The Gulf Freeway near Griggs Rd.
About 1:15 am one vehicle rear-ended another, causing the black vehicle that was hit to spin out of control, stopping in the main lanes of the freeway.
The driver who hit the other vehicle left the scene, according to a police report.
There is a search underway for that hit-and-run driver.
A second vehicle pulled up moments later and a woman jumped out to help the victim of the first crash who was still in her black car, but that's when a third vehicle crashed into that car as it sat in a middle lane.
Both the first crash victim and the woman who tried to help her were killed.
The driver of the third vehicle has been in a hospital.