Drag Racing Teens Hospitalized After Crash In Queens

Police believe drag racing caused a spectacular crash on Francis Lewis Boulevard that left two teens and 11-year-old boy hospitalized. Two cars, a BMW and a Lexus, were seen speeding around 11 p.m. last night when they knocked into each other, sending the BMW spinning into a parked van. Witness Peter Boudouvas tells CBS 2, "I saw one car bump the car on the left, took 2 or 3 spins, van moved 30 feet up. I jumped out, called 911 and asked nobody to move." According to ABC 7, police had to cut down a tree to get through to the wreckage. Another witness says the BMW was "doing 60 to 70 mph...Things like this happen all the time." The 18-year-old driver of the BMW and two male passengers, ages 18 and 11, were rushed to Booth Memorial Hospital in Queens. The 11-year-old is in critical condition, and the 16-year-old driver of the Lexus walked away with minor injuries. He was given a breathalyzer test (it came back negative) and is being questioned by police, but he's already in violation of the law for driving without a licensed adult in the car.

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By John Del Signore in News on August 13, 2009 9:59 AM

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Vatalya

"The 18-year-old driver of the BMW and two male passengers, ages 18 and 11, were rushed to Booth Memorial Hospital in Queens. The 11-year-old is in critical condition, and the 16-year-old driver of the Lexus walked away with minor injuries."

I'm confused because news just came out that the 16yr old died from his injuries on the 16th.

NannyState

It would be perfect if their injuries left them in wheelchairs and they got really fat.

JenChungsBaby

I feel bad for the tree.

[mis]inheritance

I do as well. They are always seem to be involved in shit like this.

Wza

Queens keeps on fakin' it.

Dirk

What a bunch of morons.

JacqueMehoff

the driver always walks away. a BMW and a Lexus huh?

where were their parents?????????????

those aren't jalopies.

silver

Their parents are busy increasing your rent and busy making fake securities investment docs for you.

JacqueMehoff

wonderful, then I'm going to Hell for this but notice it's the youngest ones who suffer. Oh, and I'll see their parents there.

FJF

I saw a news clip this morning of the mom of the 16-year old driver slapping him in the back of the head. Looks like a real bunch of cavones.

Jen Chung

Wow, that news clip is amazing.

schadenfreudian mensch

Yea, that back slap is going to do a lot of good.

silver

Will the Jailhouse Rabbi get these 2 punks out of the charges?

hotstepper

let's see...an 18 yr old in a BMW, and a 16 yr old in a Lexus, driving as if the highways are their personal racetrack. these silver spoon motherfuckers were certainly not raised with a sense of entitlement were they?

nicemarmot

Unfortunately the poor kids do the same damn thing. You should see the kind of deadly accidents that happen in the poorer burbs east of LA. It was madness, you didn't even want to drive through certain areas at night because you might get smashed up by some idiot racing down the street.

schadenfreudian mensch

I'd say just let Darwin do it's magic. They're just taking up space and air at the moment. As soon as they're removed from the gene pool we'll all be the better for it. It's just too bad there's no one out-in-the-middle of nowhere place that these douche can just incinerate their cars and themselves.

militza

drag racing and someone got injured? you don't say.

whitecastlerock

BMW drivers are complete assholes... I feel badly for the injured kid

flynn110

yes! and while we are at it so are all 11, 16, and 18 year old kids. oh!, also, all lexus drivers, as well as bikers, walkers, people with strollers...i could go on and on.