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Thursday, December 11, 2014Area:
New York, NYShortly before 7:30am, a 12-year-old boy who was in 7th grade at Memorial Junior-High was struck by a car driven by Austin Soldano, and was taken to the hospital before eventually being pronounced dead. Soldano was arrested for the crash, but only because he was driving with a suspended license.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014Area:
New York, NYJustin Johnson and Joseph Kelly, both 19, died after the car Kelly was driving went off the Southern State Parkway after failing to negotiate a turn at high speeds and slammed into the Franklin Avenue overpass in Valley Stream at about 12:30 a.m., police say. The vehicle caught on fire, and both teens were trapped inside. Drugs or alcohol do not appear to be factors.
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Sunday, January 26, 2014Area:
New York, NYA 15-year-old Long Island girl was killed and her 13-year-old sister suffered critical injuries after their 19-year-old brother’s car hit another vehicle making a U-turn Monday night, police say.
The three siblings were heading west on West Merrick Road near Boden Avenue in Valley Stream in a 2000 Toyota sedan at about 9:30 p.m. when it hit a 2009 Toyota driven by a 31-year-old man, according to the Nassau County Police Department.
The 19-year-old’s car barreled into several parking meters and a utility pole after the collision, police say, and the 13-year-old was ejected.