CLEVELAND — A husband and wife from Cleveland were killed in a fiery crash while dropping their son off at college in North Carolina on Friday afternoon, authorities said.

The couple, parents of four children, were both educators at elementary schools within the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

Troopers responded to the crash on Interstate 85 north and Interstate 40 east around 1:18 p.m., the highway patrol told NBC affiliate WRAL .

Donald Nunney, 55, was driving a Honda Odyssey from Cleveland to Chapel Hill, N.C., with his wife, 50-year-old Maria Nunney, in the passenger seat and two of their children in the backseat.

Troopers said the minivan went off the road and caught fire in the woods near the highway, hitting several trees before striking a large tree and coming to a

See Full Page