DEADLY SWEET 16
3 killed 'drunk' rams LI party ride
Three women were killed when an alleged drunken driver crashed into their livery car after they left a Sweet 16 party on Long Island, police and sources said Sunday.
Dante Lennon, 22, was driving a Mercedes-Benz sedan when he allegedly T-boned a Lincoln Town Car carrying a ride-hail driver and five passengers at 11:11 p.m. Saturday in New Hyde Park, outside an event venue on Jericho Turnpike, according to Nassau County police.
The three female passengers, who were in the back seat of the Town Car, were pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Their identities were not released.
The others in the Lincoln were taken to a hospital, and were in stable condition, the Nassau County Police Department said.
Triple manslaughter
Lennon was charged with a DWI and three counts of vehicular manslaughter, cops said. The Freeport, LI, resident was taken to a hospital to be treated for nonlife-threatening injuries. He will appear in court when he is well enough to do so, according to police.
A law-enforcement source told The Post the women who were killed had just left a Sweet 16 party at the Inn at New Hyde Park. The venue hosts weddings, bar mitzvahs, quinceañeras and other celebrations, according to its website.
Surveillance footage obtained by CBS2 shows the driver of the Lincoln slowly turning left onto Jericho Turnpike when the Mercedes rams into it — sending both cars flying down the road.
A witness who works at a nearby restaurant told the TV station he heard a loud bang, ran outside, saw the destroyed cars and called 911.
“Right away, I just see a Mercedes-Benz coming through, crashing into an Uber driver that was turning,” the Table 7 employee told CBS New York. “It looked like a T-bone, a little bit, and it was devastating.”
“Very disturbing, never seen that ever in my life,” witness Jaylen Augustin told ABC7. “Why would that happen? I just can’t believe it.”