HARTFORD, Conn. — Five children and teenagers from Derby, Connecticut, were killed in a fiery crash in New York on Sunday morning, police said.
All five were in a Nissan Rogue being driven by a 16-year-old boy when the SUV veered off the road on the Hutchinson River Parkway in Scarsdale, struck a tree and caught on fire, according to the Westchester County Police Department.
Four boys and one girl, ranging in age from 8 to 17 years old, were killed in the crash at about 12:20 a.m. just north of the exit for Mamaroneck Road, police said.