3 Dead After Driver Crashes Into Newton Creek In LIC, Says NYPD

LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — Three men died early Saturday morning in Long Island City, after driving a car into Newton Creek, police said.

The trio — Luis Cuadros, 30, Quameek Mack, 25, and another unidentified man — was traveling “at an apparent high rate of speed” on Borden Avenue, near the Long Island Expressway, around 4:46 a.m., when the driver lost control, slammed into a barrier and plunged into the creek, according to the NYPD.

Witnesses told multiple news outlets that the person behind the wheel of the 2016 Honda Civic was speeding down the dead-end street and hit a concrete skateboarding ramp, which launched the car over a fence and into the water.

NYPD divers pulled the men from the water, and EMS transported all three to the hospital, where they were pronounced dead.

The New York Post reported that Mack, who lived on Long Island, was an aspiring rapper, and soon-to-be father of three, who his mother described as a “kind-hearted family man.”

Cuadros lived in Elmhurst.

As of Monday morning, the NYPD said that its Highway Collision Investigation Squad is still investigating the case and the third man has not yet been identified.