December 23, 2020 - 4:31 PM
YONKERS, N.Y. - A car speeding away from police Tuesday night in suburban New York City barrelled into another car, splitting that vehicle in half and killing five people, officials said.
The 36-year-old driver of the speeding car and four 18-year-old men, who were ejected from the other vehicle, died in the crash. The fatal collision happened around 9:30 p.m. in Yonkers, Mayor Mike Spano and Police Commissioner John Mueller said.
WNBC-TV reported that friends described the four 18-year-olds as recent high school graduates.
Spano said the crash, on Riverdale Avenue near Culver Street in the Ludlow Park neighbourhood, was ânothing short of tragic.â
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Police have released the identities of five people killed during a horrific two-vehicle crash in Westchester County.
The crash, which took place around 9:23 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 22, occurred after Yonkers Police attempted to stop a white 2009 Infiniti sedan being operated in an erratic manner with equipment violations in the area of South Broadway and Prospect Street, said Yonkers Dt. Lt. Dean Politopoulos.
Officers attempted to stop the sedan for vehicle and traffic law violations in front of 47-85 Riverdale Avenue. The sedan appeared to pull over in front of the location, then immediately accelerated at a high rate of speed southbound on Riverdale Avenue, Politopoulos said.
Horrific moment four 18-year-olds are killed instantly when speeding driver fleeing cops smashes into them with such force it splits their car in HALF
Police in Yonkers say Devon Haywood, 36, was fleeing from traffic stop on Tuesday night when he smashed into a Nissan carrying four teens
Killed were Brandon Sierra; Randy Brisbane; Tamari Watkins, and Anthony Cruz, all 18 from Yonkers; friends said they had just graduated from high school
Surveillance video captured Haywood s white Infiniti speeding and then slamming into the teens Nissan on Riverdale Avenue
All four teens were ejected from Nissan after it split in half and died at the scene