5 Connecticut kids, ages 8-17, useless after New York crash

SCARSDALE, N.Y. — 5 kids from Connecticut, ranging in age from 8 to 17, had been killed in a fiery crash on a New York freeway, police mentioned.

Police consider the car was being pushed by a 16-year-old boy when it veered off the Hutchinson River Parkway early Sunday in Scarsdale, hit a tree and caught hearth. A 9-year-old boy, the sixth individual within the Nissan Rogue, was the one survivor, in accordance with an announcement offered by Kieran O’Leary, spokesperson for the Westchester County Police Division.

The 9-year-old was “apparently using within the rear hatchback/cargo space and escaped out the rear,” in accordance with the assertion. The boy was taken to the hospital with accidents that weren’t life-threatening.

The 5 who had been killed embrace 4 boys and a woman. Their identities haven’t but been launched. Police mentioned they’re all from Connecticut.

Matt Conway, the superintendent of colleges in Derby, Connecticut, mentioned he realized the youngsters had been a part of a household that not too long ago moved to the New Haven County neighborhood from New York however had not enrolled within the district. Conway mentioned he reached out to the daddy on Sunday and provided to offer him details about obtainable helps in the neighborhood for him and his household. He deliberate to speak with the daddy once more on Monday.

“It’s the unimaginable. Having to now make preparations for 5 of your kids to be buried is a really troublesome factor for anybody — one little one, by no means thoughts 5 that you simply’re going to need to now make preparations for,” Conway mentioned.

Police mentioned the car crashed at about 12:20 a.m. and the crash was below investigation. Derby is roughly 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Scarsdale.