The NYPD is investigating a multi-vehicle crash on the Belt Parkway that left three teenagers dead and four other people injured.<\/p>\n
Police responded just after 11:30 p.m. Tuesday to the parkway near 65th Street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
Five teenagers were heading east in a Cadillac Escalade when the vehicle\u2019s driver merged into the right lane, investigators said.<\/p>\n
Another driver in an approaching Honda HRV was behind the Cadillac and unable to brake in time, which resulted in the vehicle rear-ending the teen’s car. Officials said both vehicles lost control.<\/p>\n
Police say the Cadillac hit the guardrail and overturned, ejecting three of the passengers from the car.<\/p>\n
Driver Huzayfah Algaheim, 18, and passengers Abdul Rehman, 16, and Konstantin Gerantidi, 17, were taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. All three are from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is deep sorrow for my family,\u201d Basitarat Aline, Rehman\u2019s cousin, said. \u201cAbdul is a very, very nice guy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Cadillac\u2019s two other teenage passengers and the two women in the Honda are in stable condition, police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just very, very sad,\u201d said Kara Garcia, who drives the Belt Parkway often. \u201cI really pray for their families and their friends. It\u2019s a horrible situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Commuters say they frequently see speeding and quick lane changes on the road, especially in the evenings.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are coming in and cutting you off,\u201d Dawn Bader said. \u201cThere\u2019s always traffic and speeding, so it\u2019s dangerous. I don\u2019t like the Belt Parkway.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are currently no criminal charges stemming from Tuesday\u2019s incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD is investigating a multi-vehicle crash on the Belt Parkway that left three teenagers dead and four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[387,25,98,100,99,119456,9,24,12,63,308,27,200],"class_list":["post-330910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-carly-haynes","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330910","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=330910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}