Three men are dead after their car fell into Newtown Creek in Queens early Saturday morning. The driver was speeding down Borden Avenue in Long Island City and the car appeared to speed up as it barreled past a dead-end sign and into the creek.
Witnesses informed the car clipped a concrete barrier at the end of the road, moving it and that inside into the water below.
Police are probing how the vehicle wound up in the creek.
More witnesses said they frantically called 911 around 4:40 a.m.
But it was still dark and the responding officers could not observe the sinking car at first.
Rescuers attended the scene and pulled the men who were trapped inside the vehicle to shore.
“Within 10 minutes after that we had divers in the water and approximately 10 minutes after that, we recovered two victims and pulled them out of the water,” said New York City Fire Department (FDNY) Deputy Chief Fred Mallett.
The deputy chief said there was a third victim.
The video that is too graphic to air reveals paramedics trying to revive the men and continuously performing chest compressions. But the men couldn’t survive.
Investigators remained at Borden Avenue, attempting to figure out how fast the driver was going.
People familiar with the area said it’s possible that neither the driver nor the passengers noticed the dead-end sign.
Two of the victims have been identified as 30-year-old Luis Cuadros and 25-year-old Quameek Mack. The third victim is yet to be identified.
