Four people were killed friday night when the car they were riding in after leaving a birthday celebration at a nearby club plunged into Steinway Creek in North Queens late Friday night,law enforcement sources said.
The unidentified driver escaped the car and called 911 while the four passengers who were trapped inside had to be rescued by divers.
“The guy was speeding and he couldn’t stop and the car flipped into the creek,” a law enforcement source said.
The car drove into the water from an industrial area near 19th Avenue and 37th Street at about 10:40 p.m. on a foggy night and was completely submerged as cops and firefighters rushed to the scene.
Divers pull a victim from the water.Photo: Wayne Carrington
Scuba divers had to break open the car’s windows to rescue the people inside, the source said.
A motionless man was pulled from the car and rushed into an ambulance, where rescue workers struggled frantically to revive him.
A young woman who was also unconscious was pulled from the water immediately after the man.
At about the same time the driver, a tattooed young man, sat inside an ambulance talking to emergency workers.
Two victims in cardiac arrest were taken to Elmhurst Hospital in Queens while two other victims who were also in cardiac arrest were taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, cops said.
The driver and passengers were at a nearby club celebrating a birthday party before they went into the water, not far from a city wastewater treatment plant and the Rikers Island bridge, police sources said.
Neighbors noted the street doesn’t have a “Dead End” sign that would have warned the driver.
Additional reporting by Josh Saul
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