Three teenagers were killed Friday morning when a stolen out-of-control SUV driven by a 15-year-old girl crashed on a Long Island parkway.
Authorities said the three teens killed were ejected from the vehicle when it flipped over several times landing in a thick brush on the shoulder of the Meadowbrook State Parkway near Merrick Road.
Two of the teens were pronounced dead at the scene while a third died at an area hospital, the New York Post reports. Their identities have not been released.
Ten people, including an eight-month-old infant, were packed in the vehicle at the time of the crash. Police said the teens range in ages from 13 to 18 and not everyone was wearing a seatbelt.
Three teenagers were killed when a stolen flipped over and landed on the shoulder of a Long Island parkway
Police said the car was speeding and swerving around vehicles moments before the crash
Police believe the infant, who survived but was injured, had been restrained in a child car seat.
The six other teens who survived were all injured and hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said. The driver was among the survivors and was conscious and being questioned by police.
State police said the 2015 Chevy Trailblazer had been reported stolen out of Roosevelt on Thursday.
Witnesses told officers that the SUV was speeding and swerving around cars moments before the crash, according to the NBC. The vehicle was not being chased by police and did not appear to be in a race with another car.
It’s not clear where the group was headed.
The car was stolen from the Roosevelt area on Thursday, police said
The driver of the car was a 15-year-old girl, who survived. There were 10 people, including an eight-month-old, in the car at the time of the crash
Police said there were not enough seatbelts for everyone in the vehicle and the three teens killed were ejected from the vehicle
‘The vehicle did lose control, overturned several times and came to final rest on the west shoulder into the marsh,’ Major David Candelaria of the New York State Police said during a press briefing near the scene.
Candelaria told reporters that the a witness had reported that the SUV came up behind their car at a high-speed and then swerved around it.
Candelaria said the SUV ‘kind of veered to the left’ and the driver ‘over-corrected and then the vehicle overturned several times’.
There were no immediate signs of drugs or alcohol. Additional information about the teens and the infant was not immediately available.