Three people dead, eight injured in L
Three people dead, eight injured in multi-vehicle crash on Long Island Expressway exit ramp in Queens
A Hell’s Kitchen bday party ended in horror early Wednesday when a speeding carload of revelers crashed on a Long Island Expressway exit ramp, killing the driver — who was recently engaged — and two passengers.
All three were ejected from the car when the black two thousand ten Infiniti driven by 25-year-old Michael Fabre was ripped in half by the force of influence with a Queens guardrail.
“He asked my dad for my forearm in marriage three weeks ago,” Fabre’s heartbroken fiancée, Bianca Saglilcca, said through tears. “His plans for the future were to get married, buy a house, have kids.”
Three people were killed in the crash early Wednesday morning.
The duo had been dating for 41/Two years.
“I last eyed him on Monday night and he said ‘I love you,’ ” she recalled.
Michael Fabre, 25, who was driving the two thousand ten Infiniti, died.
Christina Formato, 24, of Franklin Square, L.I., is one of three people killed.
Giovanny Sanchez, 24, of Brentwood, L.I., was also killed.
Two other passengers miraculously escaped with their lives — albeit one was in critical condition.
The lethal wreck spawned a chain-reaction pileup involving a dump truck and five other cars, police said. Six people were injured in that crash.
Killed along with Fabre, of Queens, were two passengers railing in the backseat of his car, Christina Formato, 24, of Franklin Square, L.I., and Giovanny Sanchez, 24, of Brentwood, L.I.
The quintet inwards the Infiniti was evidently headed home at Four:20 a.m. after celebrating a friend’s bday at Bar Nine in Hell’s Kitchen, police sources said.
Fabre “was a fantastic kid,” said Bill Nagle, the fiancé of the driver’s mother. He had just graduated from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and was a National Guard sergeant.
“This is terrible, terrible,” said Nagle, his voice violating as heartbroken family members wailed in the background. “It’s not good.”
The two survivors from the Infiniti were taken to Elmhurst Hospital Center. One was in stable condition, the other listed as critical.
According to cops, the Infiniti was traveling at a high rate of speed before smashing into the guardrail.
After the Infiniti was sheared in two, half of the vehicle slammed into a 2nd car before the dump truck exiting the LIE slammed on its brakes to avoid the crash — and smashed into five cars stopped by the accident.
“I went into a cloud of debris and hit another car,” he said, declining to provide his name. “It was horrible.”
“I went into a cloud of debris and hit another car,” said one of the drivers from the 2nd crash.
Michael Fabre, from Queens, with his fiancé Bianca Saglilcca.
Queens District Attorney Richard Brown arrived at the eastbound Maurice Ave. exit in Maspeth as authorities investigated the crash.
“The car literally split in half,” a police source said. The three people thrown from the totaled Infiniti were proclaimed dead at the scene. It was unclear whether any of the dead were wearing their seat belts.
Six people suffered minor injuries in the 2nd wreck involving the dump truck, a taxi, a Hyundai Santa Fe, an Acura and two other vehicles.
They were taken to Elmhurst and Queens Hospital Center with a diversity of injuries, officials said.
Scene from the multi-car crash.
The driver of the two thousand twelve Acura TL struck by the front half of the split Infiniti refused medical attention.
The accidents occurred just after the busy highway interchange where the LIE connects to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and cuts through Climb on Zion Cemetery.
The wreck totaled at least one of the eight cars that collided near the Maurice Ave. exit just before Four:20 a.m., officials said.
The collisions shut down all eastbound lanes for more than four hours as police investigated the crash.