{"id":331783,"date":"2026-08-28T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331783\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:04:10","slug":"teen-amazed-he-survived-100-mph-cadillac-crash-on-brooklyn-belt-parkway-that-killed-3-pals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331783\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen amazed he survived 100-mph Cadillac crash on Brooklyn Belt Parkway that killed 3 pals"},"content":{"rendered":"

A teenage boy riding in the front passenger seat of a Cadillac that crashed and overturned at 100 mph<\/a> on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn \u2014 an impact that killed three of his friends \u2014 is amazed he survived the deadly collision without a scratch, he told the Daily News.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went to the hospital, but I have no injuries,\u201d FaisaI Manteen, 16, said when reached at his parents\u2019 home in Seagate, Brooklyn, Thursday. \u201cI guess it\u2019s a miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three of Manteen\u2019s friends<\/a> were ejected from the Cadillac Escalade and died when it collided with a black 2024 Honda HR-V in the eastbound Belt near Exit 1 by 65th St. in Bay Ridge on Tuesday. A fifth passenger, 18, also survived.<\/p>\n

\"(L-R)(L-R) Abdul Rehman, 16, Konstantin Gerantidi, 17, and driver Huzayfah Aziz Algahiem, 18, died after the 2002 Cadillac Escalade they were riding in collided with a 2024 Honda HR-V near Exit 1 by 65th St. in Bay Ridge on Aug. 25, 2026. (GoFundMe; Obtained by NYDN)<\/p>\n

Unlike his friends who died, Faisal was wearing his seatbelt, he remembered.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe others weren\u2019t wearing seatbelts,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what to say. It was terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Medics rushed the five teenage boys to local hospitals. The Cadillac\u2019s 18-year-old driver Huzayfah Aziz Algahiem and two of his passengers \u2014 Konstantin Gerantidi, 17, and Abdul Rehman, 16 \u2014 died at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, cops said.<\/p>\n

Investigators determined that the Escalade was going 100 mph when it crashed around 11:35 p.m., a police source said. The speed limit on the Belt Parkway is 50 mph.<\/p>\n

Just before the crash, Algahiem switched from the center to the right lane, cops said. He braked sharply due to a slower moving vehicle in front of him and was rear-ended by the Honda SUV behind him.<\/p>\n

\"AA mangled Cadillac Escalade is pictured in a police lot in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026, after three teens were killed in a late-night crash on the Belt Parkway. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The out-of-control Cadillac then hit a guardrail, spun around and overturned.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe might have been hit from behind, but I couldn\u2019t tell. It was a big car, and everything happened so fast,\u201d Manteen recalled. \u201cOur car flipped over. The three of us who weren\u2019t wearing seatbelts were thrown. They were ejected.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw them on the ground,\u201d he said, remembering the aftermath of the crash. \u201cTwo weren\u2019t moving. Only one of us was moving.\u201d<\/p>\n

When pressed for details on what led up to the crash, including whether the car was speeding, the teen declined to comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to go,\u201d he said before ending the interview.<\/p>\n

Mateen said he and his friends had gone to dinner in Bay Ridge and were heading home when they crashed. He and the 18-year-old survivor were treated at Maimonides Medical Center.<\/p>\n

The Honda became partially wedged under the Cadillac during the crash and also overturned, police said. The 46-year-old woman driving the HR-V and her passenger, a 44-year-old woman, were taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in stable condition.<\/p>\n

Algahiem had a valid license, police said. He had received six motor vehicle summonses in the past, including in January for speeding and making an unsafe lane change on the Belt Parkway, police said.<\/p>\n

In August of last year, Algahiem got a summons for speeding and driving on the shoulder on Staten Island. He didn\u2019t answer that summons in court and had his license suspended, but it was eventually restored, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boy riding in the front passenger seat of a Cadillac that crashed and overturned at 100…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[10182,98,2214,75,84,83,9,24,63,103],"class_list":["post-331783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-belt-parkway","tag-brooklyn","tag-crash","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331783","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=331783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}