GCP crash claims two lives

A Brooklyn man and his high school buddy were killed and a woman critically injured when the car they were driving on the Grand Central Parkway struck the center divider before slamming into a signpost, police said.
“I don’t know if you realize, the car was ripped in two,” said an New York Police Department (NYPD) spokesperson, describing the force of the impact near Shea Stadium, which flipped the car that carried the three back from a party in Washington Heights on Sunday, February 18.
According to published reports, icy road conditions may have contributed to the crash.
David Ortiz, 24, was driving the black, 2001 Honda Accord eastbound near the Northern Boulevard exit in East Elmhurst when he hit the median and lost control of the car at approximately 3:10 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The force of the crash ejected Jaime Domenech, 24, from the rear passenger seat. Police said it was unclear whether or not he was wearing his seatbelt.
Domenech was also pronounced dead at the scene.
Ortiz, who lived just over the Brooklyn-Queens border in Cyprus Hills, and his girlfriend, Viviana Perez, 21, who was seated in the front passenger seat, both had to be cut from the car, police said.
Perez survived the crash and was taken to New York Hospital Queens in Flushing where she was listed in critical condition on Monday, February 19.
Ortiz had been friends with Domenech, of 101 Vanderveer Street in Bushwick, since the two were schoolmates at Thomas Edison High School in Jamaica, published reports said.