Wethersfield — Police on Friday released the names of three people who were killed in two crashes that occurred 12 hours apart on the same road last weekend.

David J. Lopez, 23, of Wethersfield, has died of his injuries sustained in a crash around 2:40 a.m. on Nov. 25 on the Silas Deane Highway, or Route 99, police said Friday.

Later that day, about 2:30 p.m., Zenja Ortiz, 35, of Hartford, and Jerry Kapij, 77 of Wethersfield, were killed on the same road, Wethersfield police said.

Wethersfield police initially provided the wrong name of one of the people who died in the second accident. Police have not said whether that person was involved in the crash.

The first of the two serious crashes happened when a Kia sport utility, rear-ended a garbage truck, police said. The driver, Lopez, initially was in critical condition.

The garbage truck truck driver also was injured, police said at the time. The collision happened in the 1100-block of Silas Deane Highway, about 2:40 a.m. Nov. 25.

Less than 12 hours later, two people died in another crash up the block. Shortly after 2:30 p.m., two cars collided head-on in the 1200 block of the Silas Deane, police said. Both drivers, Ortiz and Kapij, were taken to Hartford Hospital, where they later were pronounced dead, according to police.

The road does not have a center divider, Capt. Marc Petruzzi said.

A regional group of crash investigators, the Mid-State Accident Reconstruction Team, is investigating both crashes, police said.