Three teens were killed in a violent crash on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn Tuesday night \u2014 including the driver, who was cited for reckless driving and speeding on the parkway just seven months earlier, police and sources said.<\/p>\n
Huzayfah Algaheim, 18,\u00a0who also had his license suspended for speeding last year,\u00a0was barreling down the Belt near 65th Street in a black Cadillac Escalade\u00a0with four friends around 11:35 p.m. when\u00a0he braked\u00a0and was rear-ended, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n
Both vehicles hit a guardrail, with the SUV spinning, rolling over and sending Algaheim and two passengers flying out to their deaths, the sources said.<\/p>\n
A damaged SUV sits on the Belt Parkway after a fatal crash in Brooklyn, NY, on Aug. 25, 2026. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Two other youth males, a 16-year-old and 18-year-old, were taken to Maimonides Hospital in stable condition, cops said. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Mohammed Tufail, whose 16-year-old nephew, Rehman Abdul, was among those killed in the wreck, was distressed when told about Algaheim\u2019s past reckless driving.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what to say,\u201d Tufail, 70, said Wednesday. \u201cRehman would not have known this. He would not get in the car if he knew this. He is not a reckless boy.\u201d<\/p>\n
A family friend who asked not to be identified added that a young driver like Algaheim should not have been behind the wheel with so many traffic infractions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cUntil they learn,\u201d he added. \u201cThis is life and death. This is serious. This boy should not have been driving.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Cadillac Escalade and Honda CRV involved in the car crash on the Belt Parkway. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
NYPD officers investigating the scene of the fatal crash in Brooklyn. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Algaheim, 18, and two passengers, Abdul and\u00a0Konstantin Gerantidi, 17,\u00a0were rushed to the hospital in critical condition, but died from their injuries, police confirmed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey went to the Village to have dinner,\u201d Tufail said. \u201cThey were coming back. He called his mother and said, \u2018I\u2019ll be home in 10 minutes.’\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a special boy,\u201d he said of his nephew. \u201cHis father, my older brother, is 78. He is, in the entire family, is [the] only son. We have almost 200 relatives in our family, but he is the only son.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the teens were high school chums, and all but Algaheim, who is Egyptian, are from Pakistani families.<\/p>\n
He said his nephew\u2019s parents were too distraught to speak.<\/p>\n
Based on a preliminary probe, investigators believe the Cadillac was \u201cdrifting\u201d in and out of lanes before the crash \u2014 and said speeding was a factor, sources said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The two women traveling in the Honda survived the crash with only minor injuries. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
An airbag bursting through on of the car windows. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
The car that hit the Escalade, a Honda, apparently didn\u2019t have time to brake when the larger vehicle abruptly braked\u00a0\u2014 and was partially jammed under the SUV,\u00a0according to the sources.<\/p>\n
Both vehicles struck the guardrail, as the SUV flipped.<\/p>\n
Two women in the Honda, the 46-year-old driver and a 44-year-old passenger, miraculously escaped with only minor injuries, cops said.<\/p>\n
Algaheim\u00a0was cited for speeding and an unsafe lane change on the Belt Parkway in January and issued a summons, sources said.<\/p>\n
He had his license temporarily suspended after another speeding citation in August 2025, but had it reinstated in November. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three teens were killed in a violent crash on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn Tuesday night \u2014 including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[10182,98,100,99,254,1015,57,9,24,63,4730,58],"class_list":["post-330726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-belt-parkway","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-car-crashes","tag-deaths","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-teens","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}