Wild video exhibits the second of affect in the high-speed crash that killed three teenagers in Staten Island this week.
The footage, obtained by the Staten Island Advance, exhibits the victims’ Ford Mustang — pushed by an unidentified 16-year-old boy with solely a learner’s allow — shifting east on Hylan Boulevard in Tottenville round 8:45 p.m. Sunday.
On the Richard Avenue intersection, the Mustang was unable to keep away from being struck by a 2017 GMC Yukon, heading west on the identical road and making a left flip onto southbound Richard Avenue, cops mentioned.
The Mustang briefly swerved out of view earlier than the video exhibits it spinning out within the reverse lane.
The passenger facet of the Mustang then slammed right into a tree, inflicting it to separate in two and ejecting each 15-year-old backseat passengers, authorities mentioned.
The entrance of the Mustang then continued east on Hylan Boulevard, the place it mounted the sidewalk and uprooted a small tree earlier than hanging a phone pole and coming to a cease, cops mentioned.
Entrance passenger Fernanda Gil, 16, and backseat passengers Jesie Gil and Ashley Rodriguez, 15 have been killed within the crash, authorities mentioned. The Gils have been brother and sister.
The Gil siblings’ aunt and uncle instructed The Publish early this week that the household is destroyed over their deaths.
“It’s like a nightmare,” Juan Sanchez, the kids’ uncle, mentioned at his residence.
“We’re making an attempt proper now [to plan the funeral] with somebody who was serving to us plan a marriage. We’ve by no means been on this state of affairs.”
Rodriguez was solely per week away from her Candy 16 celebration when she was killed, her brother, Charle Cruz Gonzalez, wrote in a wrenching GoFundMe submit.
“It hurts to jot down this. Her birthday, her candy sixteen is subsequent week. It was all deliberate out… however now she received’t expertise this second.”
The teenager driver was taken to Staten Island College Hospital North in essential however steady situation.
The Yukon driver, Maher Asi-Mahmoud, 47, of Morganville, NJ, was arrested for allegedly driving with a suspended license.
There have been no updates on the investigation Friday morning.
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