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Eight friends, two cars, and one fatality. Early yesterday morning, friends, piled into a Chevrolet Blazer and a Honda Civic, were crashed at "dead man's curve" on the Cross Island Parkway. A 19-year-old passenger was killed while the others were injured, two critically.
The drivers of the two vehicles were charged: 18-year-old Bolivar Camacho, driving the Civic, and 20-year-old Milton Flores, in the Blazer, were charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and vehicular assault; Flores was also charged with DWI.
The Daily News called Camacho's and Flores' driving a "drunken game of cat and mouse" and even created a graphic to show the route of the crash. Apparently Flores, whose Blazer had five other people in it, and Camacho, who had 1 other passengers, started "jockeying with each other as they gained speed" after getting on the Cross Island. At the curve near the Whitestone, the cars collided and the Blazer flipped over a number of times. John Reyes, who was in the Blazer, was killed and many of the passengers were thrown out of the car. Henry Hernandez, who was in one of the cars, told the News, "The next thing I know I'm in a car upside down."
A passenger in Comacho's Civic, Jonathan Garcia, told Newsday that the friends, who had been hanging out near Fort Totten, only had "two little cups" of Bacardi rum: "It wasn't enough to get drunk drunk." Amy Koo, 16, whose father is an NYPD sergeant, was critically injured with severe back injuries and a fractured skull, and Eider Valencia, 23, was paralyzed with spinal injuries.
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*two little cups" of Bacardi rum*
this means you're legally drunk and should nt drive a car.
That turn on the Cross Island is brutal. Makes you wonder why they built it that way.
"It wasn't enough to get drunk drunk."
But it was apparently enough to get dead dead.
ok i know itz over a year now but when i herd about this i felt i had 2 speak my mind in it jea 1st off ya mutha fukcks needa stop talkin shitt swearin u kno me im not fukin asian im fuk white 4 all ya swearin u kno shitt & 2 whoeva the fuk posted that 3rd fukin comment i hope u die & suffer a slow painful death dont ever in ur god damn life go disrepectin my friend who i will neva c again & my parents were aware of my boyfriends age back then so mind ya neck & w/e the fuk else happened that night is really none of ya mutha fuckas concerns u didnt know us u werent there guess u hav nuttin better 2 do wit ya own god damn lives so u go & try 2 swear like u know otha peoples lives tryin 2 judge them so in my opinion all ya mutha fuckin low-lifes who like 2 run ur mouth i dont say this much but majority of people who left comments on this shitt i hope they live a lonely life & suffer from their own fukin horrific tragidies b4 they go & try 2 relate 2 others!!!!!!!!!!
*~* AMY KOO *~*
How did I know an SUV was involved? Typical SUV mindset.
Unfortunately, young people of that age don't even have to be legally drunk to act that stupid. Cars should come standard with disabling kill-switches for teenage drivers when erratic driving is detected.
I didn't know the Cross island starts at the whitestone expressway? what major thoroughfare does it end at? (north to southwise)
Reality Czech said:
So your saying that it was the "Eeeeeevvvvviiilll" SUV and not the drinking or any speeding, right?(sigh)
IMO, this isn't an SUV exclusive tragedy.
"That turn on the Cross Island is brutal. Makes you wonder why they built it that way."
Brutal only if you're playing a game of drunk tag with your cars.
Thousands of cars go through there everyday without people dying.
Ugh this is like a replay of a car crash that killed 2 of my friends immediately post high school. Chevy Blazer + "not that much drinking" + treacherous part of the roadway + too much youthful recklessness. I agree with Dave. There's got to be some kind of remote switch you can install in kids/cars when all these things become involved.
ah i just love it when a group of people win the Darwin Awards. Brings us oh so much closer to a healthier gene pool we've been dreaming about.
heck, you don't have to be involved in an accident to be a SUV tragedy. Just owning one is tragic enough.
You owning a computer and having access to the intarweb is already tragic, RC.
#6 the Belt Parkway and the Southern State Parkway.
BTW That turn is not that bad even at 50mph. I do it all the time. I guess the booze and bravado played a big roll in the mishap. Sad.
Seatbelts?
if people were taught to take a sharp turn at the apex, most crashes could definetly be averted. never hit the brakes on a turn (only before in a straight line) and ease up on throttle... after you pass apex, increase throttle and continue.
Defensive driving should be mandatory for everyone...
that little asian chick Koo's parents must have been like "don't hang out with those spanish kids, They are bad news!" and she was all like "screw you! I wanna party and be cool!" and now she has brain damage and won't be able to walk anymore. Asian Parents are always right.
"Seatbelts?"
You were of course being sarcastic I hope #14.
Little Ms. Koo's boyfriend is (was?) 19 years old. She's 16. Her parents must have been thrilled about that too. Couldn't he go to jail if he diddled her?
Booze or not, what a tragedy. My heart goes out to the families of the deceased and injured.
I had a co-worker who used to talk on the phone with his buddies about how crazy they'd been racing their cars. In traffic. I was appalled at how ignorant they were.
THen he was in a crash. Luckily the only people involved in it were he and his girlfriend. They both got hurt but lived.
It was the only thing that put some sense in his head.
Nappy headed Hispanics should not be allowed to drive. It's in the US constitution's new amendment.
ms. koo's boyfriend had bravado, that's why she went out with him instead of a mousey mouse type who didn't have the bravado to ask pursuit her.
now her brain is mushy mushy mushie mushie, domo aragato, mr. roboto.
I OWN that curve. It is a benchmark curve I use to test a cars handling. i negotiated it in a Mini Cooper S at about 75MPH. I was arrested for DWAI years ago, never drove after drinking again.
Stupid kids, and yes that cute korean girl should not have been messin with the wetback
Now Koo will have the same IQ as all the Spanish kids.
Alternatively, they'll have start calling Koo "Goo"!
Before the second sentence, I knew it was a Jen Chung post. Sad.
The race has nothing to do with it. Posting about such inane things takes away from the real issues. Why do the racist posters even bother?
This was a tragedy no matter what the circumstances were.
The=Their
Poster #20 here: The street-racing jerk I worked with...was Asian. So much for all the comments.
First off, Let's stop using the configuration of the turn on the roadway as an "Alternative excuse" here ! This accident was cause by a drunk driver and not the roadway ! I swear I fucking hate you "Ass Wipe"- Shit-Headed" drivers ! Just because you have personal problems doesn't give you all the right to get behind the wheel and cause havoc on the roads ! It's going to get to the point where as the laws will become so stringent that folks that take the privilege of driving will become impaired themselves ! All because of a group of drivers that can't seem to get this one thought through there heads . If your going out to a bar, OR you've been drinking, Do not drive home ! Get a friend too take you there, OR Use Public Transportation ! How simple is that ? Fuckin Retards ! Posted by; "Still Not Amused"
I honestly can't believe that one of the kids said "It wasn't enough to get drunk drunk." So it was enough to get you drunk, but not plastered... When it comes down to it, it's just another sad case of a tragedy happening due to people trying to prove something and driving while intoxicated. It could have happened anywhere, but at that turn, with all the other elements thrown into it, makes for some bad news. I honestly wonder where a group of kids, all under 21 except for one if I recall correctly, were going at 12:30am on a Monday night in Queens...and what kind of event that they could possibly get into required them to pregame 2 cups of Bacardi each right before sitting behind the wheel?
Although this doesn't matter at all, Amy Koo is not Asian she is a white girl from Astoria. I am disgusted at how casually you can discuss a tragedy like this. That girl is someones daughter and no matter who she was hanging out with or what they were doing she did not deserve that. This is not a joke it is real life, maybe if everyone realized how real this is and that it could just as easily happened to them or their families instead of laughing at all the "other people" these things happen to we would have less of these horrible traedies.
I posted about the seatbelts, and I was wondering if the kids who were tossed from the car were actually wearing them. If you have on a seatbelt, you won't be tossed. The other kids made it out fine.
Thats all I am saying.
fyi: amy koo isnt asian