An explosive crash at a gas station off Forest Hill Boulevard claimed the life of one young man Thursday morning, sent three others to the hospital and left behind a trail of scorched pavement and mangled debris.

Joshua Colon, 18, of suburban West Palm Beach, was one of three young men traveling in a pickup truck that police say flew through the intersection of Forest Hill and Florida Mango Road, just west of West Palm Beach, without headlights about 2:30 a.m. The truck collided with a U.S. Postal Service tractor-trailer and both vehicles careened into a gas station pump.

Colon died at the scene. The other two passengers, Corey Basham, 16, and Irfan Jackson, 18, both of Greenacres, were taken to Delray Medical Center with serious injuries.

Jackson was in critical condition and Basham in fair condition Thursday evening.

The driver of the semi, Rodolfo Hernandez, 46, of Lake Worth, was taken to JFK Medical Center in Atlantis with minor injuries. He was later released.

According to Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office deputies, the pickup was traveling southbound on Florida Mango Road "at a speed well above the posted speed limit" when it ran the red light at Forest Hill and was struck by the semi.

The pickup spun into a concrete utility pole on the southwest corner of the intersection, and the three men, who weren't wearing seat belts, were ejected. The pickup smashed into a Sunoco gas station pump, which exploded.

It was unclear which of the three teenagers was driving the pickup, but deputies at the scene Thursday morning said they believed Colon was a passenger.

Palm Beach County Fire Rescue Capt. Don DeLucia said Lake Clarke Shores police saw the truck driving on Florida Mango without its lights on just before the crash. Police estimated the truck was going 100 mph.

Colon had a lengthy criminal history, with five arrests in Palm Beach and Clay counties for a variety of crimes, including stealing a firearm, multiple larceny charges and driving without a valid license.

Basham and Jackson have no known criminal records.

The pickup is registered to a 75-year-old Lake Worth woman.

Outside of Colon's home on Palm Acres Drive, two dozen people gathered on the lawn late Thursday afternoon.

A young man said the group would not comment on the incident.

A mile away, repair crews worked to clean the scene at the gas station, which had reopened hours earlier.

A fire extinguisher still hung in its plastic compartment on a pole between a pair of destroyed pumps. The station and the intersection were closed for hours after the crash.

Post office workers retrieved the mail from the semi and processed it.

Sunoco spokesman Thomas Golembeski said Thursday afternoon that the station was still assessing the damage.

Gas pumps are designed with spring loaded "shear" valves connected to the concrete.

When a pump is knocked off its base, the shear valve closes so that the fuel in the ground tank is protected. But there is still gas in the pump that can catch fire.