Three teenagers in New York died in an accident: they took the car, but the driver did not have a license
'23.12.2022'
Nadezhda Verbitskaya
Three teenagers died in the accident. The car they were in went off the road and crashed into a forest on Long Island on the evening of December 21, reports New York Post.
A 16-year-old driver without a license and one of the passengers was ejected from a 37 Infiniti G2009 in a horrific accident in Holtsville. Witnesses said the car overspeeded and overturned several times during the crash at 21:45 p.m.
Holtsville resident Jem Gunes was driving his mother's car. He only had permission to study.
Gunes and two passengers, 17-year-old Taylor Beltramini from Morices and 18-year-old Landon Kromhout Auditore from Mastic, died at the scene. There was no one else in the car.
According to police, it is unlikely that Gunes and Beltramini were wearing seat belts, as they were thrown out of the car. It is unclear if Auditore, who remained in the car after the crash, was wearing his seatbelt.
“Witnesses tried to help in every possible way,” Suffolk Police Department Inspector Darrell Simmons told reporters. “It was a terrible accident. And I'm sure they did their best."
Since Gunes only had a study permit, he was not supposed to drive without an adult who has a driver's license.
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Adriana Barrington, Gunes' girlfriend, said she was "speechless" as she collected his belongings from the crash site, including a notebook and sneakers.
“I was supposed to spend the whole Christmas holiday with him. And now he's just gone," she said.
All three attended secondary schools in the area. Beltramini and Auditore were due to finish school in January and June.
Police are still trying to determine how fast the teenagers were traveling, where they were going from and where they were going, and what other factors may have led to the accident.
"This is terrible. We are all parents; we have kids who drive,” Simmons said. "It's a terrible tragedy, especially at Christmas."
