By Madina Toure
FRESH MEADOWS – Two men died after a car crashed into a tree in Fresh Meadows early Tuesday morning, the NYPD said.
Police responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle accident in the vicinity of 164th Street and Booth Memorial Avenue at about 1:34 a.m., according to the police.
The driver, a 28-year-old man, and his passenger, a 26-year-old man, were found unconscious and unresponsive inside a 2005 Dodge Stratus, with severe trauma about the body, officials said. They were pronounced dead at the scene. The victims’ identities are pending proper family notification, authorities said.
The NYPD’s Highway Patrol Collision Investigation Squad determined the car was traveling eastbound on Booth Memorial Avenue at a high speed rate, jumped a sidewalk and struck a tree.
The investigation is ongoing, according to a police spokeswoman.
