Police: 3 killed after the SUV Tree Tree in Bethpage

Three people in an SUV were killed in the early Sunday when the vehicle on the edge of the Bethpage State Park met a tree and caught fire, said the police department of the Nassau district.

The three victims were declared dead at the crime scene after the 2022 Dodge Durango had hit the tree in the Stymus Avenue near the Plainview Road, according to a police press release around 1 a.m.

The victims were not immediately identified by the police.

The police also provided no further information about the circumstances of the crash, which later brought friends of the victim to the scene on Sunday morning and in the afternoon.

The Bethpage fire brigade came back shortly after 1 a.m. and deleted the flames within about five minutes, said the fire brigade chief of Bethpage, Francis X. Debobes Jr.

The area is located next to the Yellow Golf Course of State Park.

Bethpage families who wake up on Mother's Day stood on their lawn to watch the police dragged the burned SUV out of the scene.

A charred supply rod and a blackened tree marked the area of ​​the crash, whereby ashy leaves hang up about 25 feet.

Michael and Lauren Kiley, residents who live the block, said they heard the crash.

“We were up all night,” said Lauren Kiley. “I heard what sounded like a cracker, then a banging sound.”

Kazi Ahmed was at home with his wife, mother and two children on the other side when he heard a “bang” shortly before 1 a.m., the Ahmed 911 called, and ran outside to see the crashed SUV and a small fire. He tried to open the back door, but it was closed.

“I screamed, 'Is someone in the car? Is someone in the car?'” Said Ahmed. “But I didn't hear anything.”

He ran back to his wife, who asked Ahmed to do everything to help, and prepared a small iron table to break a window.

“I said, 'No, it won't work' and I took my baseball bat,” said Ahmed. When he ran back to the vehicle, it had been flames.

The Ring camera film received by Newsday shows how it runs to and to the burning vehicle.

The police arrived a few minutes later and the fire brigade arrived at 1:09 a.m., according to Ahmed.

“I didn't know what to do,” he added, “but whatever my instincts said – I did it.”

Ahmed said that he had asked the officials for years to install speed bumps on the Plainview Road route near the crash, since drivers often use it as an abbreviation at high speed to get from the nearby Bethpage State Parkway to Route 135.

A group of people who said they were friends of the victims, came in one after the other in separate cars, shortly after 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. They welcomed themselves to their backs and strokes on their backs and exchanged condolences to hike through the area to pick plastic pieces and a vehicle headlight from the grass. A disturbed friend of the victims pulled a golden chain bracelet out of the rubble and used it with a water bottle to clean it.

They refused to talk to Newsday about the crash or the victims.