It was a bloody weekend on Nassau County roads, with three fatal car crashes.
One of them — on Sunrise Highway in Massapequa — claimed the lives of three members of a Queens family, and two other family members are clinging to life.
As CBS New York found out on Monday, witnesses say a driver plowed into their car, which was stopped at a red light.
A Massapequa Park resident choked up when speaking about the carnage she witnessed on Sunrise Highway.
“We heard it coming from far away and he just … he just slammed into the cars,” the resident said.
Leaving a restaurant at 7:20 p.m. on Sunday, she says she heard a car revving as it was coming from under a train trestle and barreling around the bend in front the Shop Rite strip mall.
“He slammed into the row of cars waiting at the light,” the resident said, adding, “Without slowing down, no brakes.”
The results were tragic. Police say the speeding driver struck three cars, including an SUV occupied by a family of six. Rescue crews had to cut off the doors and top to pull out the victims — a father and five children.
“The family going out to get ice cream because dad just got a new job. He said goodbye to not only to his own life but that of his daughter and his son, age 13 and 10,” Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said.
Police identified the dead as 60-year-old Patrice Huntley of Flushing, and his daughter, Hannah, and son, Jeremiah. An 18-year-old and Huntley’s 6-year-old granddaughter in the car are in critical condition.
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