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Around 2AM Sunday morning, a Dodge Caravan crashed into a light pole on the Harlem River Drive, killing 14-year-old passenger George Perez. Police say the van, which held a total of 10 people, was overloaded and that the 35-year-old driver lost control of the vehicle. The Caravan only holds 7 people.
The NY Times reports that the car swerved "with such force that George was thrown partly out a window from one of the rear seats. He was directly in the path of the light pole when the crash occurred, and was declared dead at the scene." Perez was not wearing a seat belt. Further, the driver, Anna Martinez, only had a learner's permit, which is only good during daylight hours.
Perez (who is referred to as George Lopez in the Post) was reportedly holding Martinez's 2-year-old daughter in his lap. A relative said that he saved the toddler's life. Martinez was issued a summons for driving without a license and operating an overloaded car.
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I can't believe that in this day and age, people still do this. Load up the car with people like circus clowns without enough seat belts to go around and worse, the babies are not in car seats.
It makes me sad to see surnames like MARTINEZ, PEREZ and LOPEZ...
Hispanics, wake up and educate yourselves! Make a better life and a promising future for your children!!! Stop doing stupid things like this !!! It doesn't take even take a college diploma to know that a 2 year old has no business sitting in the lap of a 14 year old in a car driven by a person with a learner's permit.
Congratulations Q&A. You've managed to post something more offensive than anything I could ever post.
I am pleased.
Why feel compassion when stupid people do illegal things? Had they not tried to brewak every law ouit there just for the sake of convenience, most likely this tragedy would have never occured!