04-29-2012, 05:19 PM
DAMN! cause not yet known.
Seven people were killed Sunday after a van flipped off a highway in New York City and landed in a train yard next to the Bronx Zoo.
The passengers in the car, four adults and three children, were dead on arrival.
Among the dead were an 84-year-old man, three women ages 80, 45 and 30, and three girls ages 12, 10 and 7, a New York Fire Department spokesman told the Associated Press.
The accident occurred at 12:30 p.m. ET.
Police say the vehicle hit the median of the Bronx River Parkway, crossed traffic, then plunged more than 50 feet.
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Three generations of a family were killed Sunday when their SUV plunged more than 50 feet off of a highway and into a train yard next to the Bronx Zoo, killing all seven aboard.
Officials say they are trying to determine what caused the accident that claimed the lives of Jacob Nunez, 85, and Ana Julia Martinez, 81, their daughters, Maria Gonzalez, 45, and Maria Nunez, 39, and their three grandchildren.
Family members told MyFoxNY the family was only on a four-mile trip, from one sister's Bronx home to the other. The women's parents had arrived three days ago from the Dominican Republic for a month-long visit
Seven people were killed Sunday after a van flipped off a highway in New York City and landed in a train yard next to the Bronx Zoo.
The passengers in the car, four adults and three children, were dead on arrival.
Among the dead were an 84-year-old man, three women ages 80, 45 and 30, and three girls ages 12, 10 and 7, a New York Fire Department spokesman told the Associated Press.
The accident occurred at 12:30 p.m. ET.
Police say the vehicle hit the median of the Bronx River Parkway, crossed traffic, then plunged more than 50 feet.
Three generations of a family were killed Sunday when their SUV plunged more than 50 feet off of a highway and into a train yard next to the Bronx Zoo, killing all seven aboard.
Officials say they are trying to determine what caused the accident that claimed the lives of Jacob Nunez, 85, and Ana Julia Martinez, 81, their daughters, Maria Gonzalez, 45, and Maria Nunez, 39, and their three grandchildren.
Family members told MyFoxNY the family was only on a four-mile trip, from one sister's Bronx home to the other. The women's parents had arrived three days ago from the Dominican Republic for a month-long visit