SCARSDALE, N.Y.—5 youngsters from Connecticut, ranging in age from 8 to 17, had been killed in a fiery crash on a New York freeway, police stated.
Police consider the automobile was being pushed by a 16-year-old boy when it veered off the Hutchinson River Parkway early Sunday in Scarsdale, hit a tree and caught fireplace. A 9-year-old boy, the sixth individual within the Nissan Rogue, was the one survivor, in accordance with a press release supplied by Kieran O’Leary, spokesperson for the Westchester County Police Division.
The 9-year-old was “apparently using within the rear hatchback/cargo space and escaped out the rear,” in accordance with the assertion. The boy was taken to the hospital with accidents that weren’t life-threatening.
The 5 who had been killed embrace 4 boys and a woman. Their identities haven’t but been launched. Police stated they’re all from Connecticut.
Matt Conway, the superintendent of faculties in Derby, Connecticut, stated he discovered the youngsters had been a part of a household that just lately moved to the New Haven County group from New York however had not enrolled within the district. Conway stated he reached out to the daddy on Sunday and supplied to offer him details about out there helps in the neighborhood for him and his household. He deliberate to speak with the daddy once more on Monday.
“It’s the unimaginable. Having to now make preparations for 5 of your youngsters to be buried is a really tough factor for anybody—one little one, by no means thoughts 5 that you just’re going to must now make preparations for,” Conway stated.
Police stated the automobile crashed at about 12:20 a.m. and the crash was beneath investigation. Derby is roughly 50 miles north of Scarsdale.
