2 DWI susps in fatal crash

A STREET SIGN fell on a child walking near Penn Station Wednesday afternoon, police said.

The 6-year-old Argentine boy was struck by the W. 32nd St. sign by Seventh Ave. at about 4:20 p.m., cops said. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital with minor injuries, authorities said.

Andrew Southern, of Jersey City, N.J., said he was across the street when the sign fell. TWO PEOPLE were killed in a fiery five-car pile-up on an expressway just outside Kennedy Airport early Wednesday, police said.

One sedan caught fire — killing the two people inside — after five cars were swept up in the chainreaction crash on the Nassau Expressway in Lawrence on the Queens/Long Island border about 1:45 a.m., a spokesman for the Nassau County Police Department said.

Five other people went to area hospitals. Their conditions were not immediately disclosed. Two other people refused medical attention.

Responding officers took two of the injured into custody on suspicion of drunken driving, police said. Charges were pending.

“It is very early in the investigation, but homicide detectives are interviewing individuals in regards to the possibility that they were DWI,” Nassau County Police Department spokesman Detective Lt. Richard LeBrun said.

The multi-car crash happened as heavy fog blanketed the area. The weather could have been a factor in the crash, LeBrun said.

“What I saw was just out of the corner of my eye. I saw something fall down to the ground and make a striking sound, and I saw that little boy that got knocked down,” he said.

“The flags were really really going mad and flapping. It was really really windy. And people stopped to help him, which was good, I thought.” Southern said.