NEW YORK — A teenage driver with no driver’s license or learner’s permit was distracted or fell asleep behind the wheel of an SUV that crashed and caught fire on New York’s Hutchinson River Parkway, killing him and four underage relatives, authorities said Monday.
There was no supervising adult in, near or trailing the Connecticut-bound Nissan Rogue that crashed into a boulder, hit a tree and burst into flames on the Westchester County parkway just after midnight Sunday, authorities said.
Westchester County Executive George Latimer said the driver appeared to have trouble negotiating a curve.
