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Ashley Rodriguez, 15, and siblings Jessie, 15, and Fernanda Gil, 16, died after the Ford Mustang they were traveling in, driven by a teen with a supervisory license, split in half when it collided with an SUV. and a tree in Tottenville, Staten Island (NYC), Sunday night.
The three were in the sports car speeding down Hylan Blvd. in Charleston when the driver crashed into a GMC Yukon on Richard Ave., police said. Rodríguez and Jessie Gil were thrown from the car and died on the asphalt. Fernanda was sitting in the front. The 16-year-old driver survived but was not identified.detailed Daily News.
“My little sister is not here with us due to an unfortunate accident last night,” a relative of Rodríguez, Charle Cruz González, published yesterday in GoFundMe. “It hurts me to write this. Her ‘Sweet 16’ birthday is next week. Everything was planned… but now she will not experience this moment.” That young woman had an unidentified NYPD police officer brother, he said. New York Post.
“Her ‘Sweet 16’ birthday is next week. Everything was planned… but now she will not experience this moment.”
Charle Cruz González brother of one of the victims
The five occupants of the van were taken to Staten Island University Hospital North with minor injuries: two women aged 44 and 18, a 23-year-old man, an 11-year-old girl and the 47-year-old driver, who was driving with a suspended license. He did not face charges at first.
Under the law, the 16-year-old driver of the Mustang has a Class D learner’s permit and should have had a licensed adult in the front seat with him, as well as a limited number of minors in the car, law enforcement sources said. The sport utility vehicle belonged to his mother, and police were trying to determine how fast the teen was driving.
The Gil brothers were the only children of their parents. “They are devastated,” said Juan Sanchez, an uncle to the teens at the family’s Dongan Hills home. “We just know it was a car accident, that’s all. We’re just trying to be together right now.”
Investigators were trying to put the pieces of the accident together. One thing they determined was that Not all occupants were wearing seat belts, and that played a role in the fatal outcome.
The forceful collision sent the Mustang hurtling into a nearby tree, splitting the car in two and ejecting rear-seat passengers, authorities said.
In addition to gun violencetraffic accidents are another big challenge for the new mayor Eric Adams, after a dismal legacy from his predecessor, Bill De Blasio. New York City has experienced a 35% increase in traffic accidents so far this year, stated NYPD in mid-April. At the end of that month there was a tragic streak in NYC at an average of one person killed by a run over every day.
