STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Delays are reported on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and the Staten Island Expressway early in the Thursday morning rush hour. A crash is on the Brooklyn-bound upper level, according to an alert shortly after 6 a.m. from the MTA. According to ABC7, a tractor-trailer is involved in the incident. Delays extend back to at least Slosson Avenue Brooklyn bound on the Staten Island Expressway, according to 511NY.
Three men were killed in a crash on the Staten Island Expressway just before 4:30 a.m. on Oct. 5, police sources said. A 2015 Chevrolet Cruze heading westbound on the major thoroughfare forcefully hit a barrier and flipped off the roadway. EMS responded to the horrific crash and pronounced all three passengers in the car, men ages 25, 26 and 27, dead at the scene. As of Sunday morning, police were withholding the names of the victims pending family notification.
Police received a 911 call reporting the single-car crash at 4:19 a.m., after a 2015 Chevy Cruise heading New Jersey-bound slammed into a barrier and flipped, according to a spokesperson for the NYPD. The overturned car came to rest off the roadway near the exit for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway (440). All three men in the car, ages 25, 26 and 27 were declared dead on the scene by emergency medical responders, police said.