A car was sliced in half in New York Monday morning killing four young passengerrs, the Associated Press reports.
The driver of the car smashed into trees on the Long Island parkway. The driver was 17=years old and has a learners permit and was taken into the hospital.
The AP reported that the accident occurred at 4 a.m. and "glass, debris and other car parts were strewn along a wooded area adjacent to a nearby neighborhood street, where one neighbor said she was awakened by the sound of a loud explosion."
AP reports that state police have identified the driver as Joseph Beer who lives in Queens. The names of the passengers in the car have not been released but the police said to Reuters that "those killed were thrown out of the vehicle after the driver failed to negotiate a curve in the road and crashed into the woods."
A woman who lives in the area, Amy Buchanan said to Reuters of the area she lives in, "I've lived here for 10 years and there has been an accident almost in that exact spot every year, but never as one as horrific as this."
Buchanan also told the AP that she heard a "loud boom." Her home is about 50 yards from the wreckage and she said that other neighbors told her one apparent survivor of the crash was seen walking near the wreckage."
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