4 dead after car rolls into New York City waterway Four passengers were killed after a car plunged into a waterway linked to New York Citys East River late on Friday evening, police and fire officials said.Rescue divers responding to a 911 call pulled four occupants - two men and two women - from the vehicle submerged in Steinway Creek. The four were declared dead on arrival at area hospitals, New York Police Department spokesman Adam Navarro said. The fifth occupant, a 20-year-old man who was the driver, escaped the car on his own with minor injuries. He took a breathalyzer test and was found to be sober and was taken to a hospital where his condition was described as stable, police said. Police identified the dead as Darius Fletcher, 21; Jada Monique Butts, 19; Jaleel Furtado, 20; and Crystal Gravely, 19. All four lived in East Elmhurst, a middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. Police were unable to confirm reports in local newspapers that the five were friends celebrating a birthday, but confirmed it would have been Gravelys 20th birthday on Saturday. Police were still investigating the accident, but said that the car, a 2009 Honda Accord, hit a curb in a dead-end street near the Steinway & Sons piano factory in Astoria, Queens, at about 10:30 p.m. (0230 GMT) before rolling into the creek.mmm read this one drivers everybody else here 10-4
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 01:41:18 +0000
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