Highway officer looks at demolished sport-utility vehicle.
The driver of an SUV was killed when the vehicle plunged over a guardrail and landed on the Cross Bronx Expressway, near University Avenue.
SUV Plunges Over Guardrail Killing Driver On Cross Bronx Expressway
1/26/2008
A dramatic early morning crash sent a sport-utility vehicle hurtling off a bridge and onto the Cross Bronx Expressway, killing the driver, cops said.
The vehicle struck a guardrail on the 181st St. Bridge around 4:50 a.m. and plunged about 60 feet onto the eastbound expressway.
The SUV landed on its side in a mangled heap. Rescue workers extricated the unidentified driver, who was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital.
Part of the railing also crashed onto the expressway and slammed into a car driven by 49-year-old Gabriel Nieves, who was driving his elderly parents to JFK Airport.
“Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a car coming pretty fast,” said Nieves, manager of a Pathmark in Rockland County. “It punched the railing. It just about took my car out.”
The railing punctured his front passenger tire and ripped off his front bumper, causing his parents to miss their flight.
“The railing came out like a spear,” he said. “I couldn’t believe it. It was something like out of the movies.”
Police are still investigating the cause of the crash.
Nieves said a friend of the dead driver was behind the doomed vehicle and remained at the scene, appearing intoxicated.
“I asked the girl if she was all right. She said, ‘Oh my God, that was my friend. We were just celebrating my birthday,’ ” Nieves said.
SOURCE: NYDailyNews.com
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