The pranks of high-speed detectives would probably have led to a tragic car accident at Floyd Bennett Field on Saturday night that claimed the lives of three young Sheepshead Bay residents.
Police said a teenage organization was driving a 2020 Toyota traveling at top speed west on Track 440 at Track 440 at Floyd Bennett Field when the car crashed into the driver’s appearance of a Kia Forte traveling at a speed along shooting street C.
Authorities say Kia’s driving force, Emil Badalov, 16, and two of its passengers, Daniel Sidgiyayeva, 11, and 18-year-old Margarita Sidgiyayeva died in the wreckage. A fourth passenger, aged 17, was transported to NYU Langone-Brooklyn, where he was indexed in critical condition Sunday afternoon.
The other 3 people traveling in the Toyota are believed to be in solid condition at Kings County Hospital. Police resources say the car’s driving force is also 16 years old.
Although the other patients in the car have not yet been identified, they are believed to be all Madison High School scholars.
The New York Police Department’s Collision Investigation Squadron and Gateway National Recreation Area Federal Police were investigating that teens were running drag races on the long runway, a component of the Gateway National Park formula at Floyd Bennett Field, the city’s first municipal airport.
Dragster’s races and other examples of careless driving are new to Floyd Bennett’s airfields.
In February, a permit police officer behind the wheel of her boyfriend’s Cadillac Escalade drove from the southern end of the box to Jamaica Bay at full speed.
Floyd Bennett Field was established in 1931 for advertising flights, but then took over the Navy for use as an army airfield, which continued World War II. It was then closed through the Navy and, in 1974, became a component of Gateway National, open to the public for recreation.
The airfield still supports a hangar of aircraft where old aircraft are rebuilt. The site also includes the Aviator Sports Complex, a marine barracks, the New York Police Air force center and special operations, a sanitation department garage and networked gardens.
The long airfields are open to cars and young drivers are known to walk the old training trails.
The park closed for two months at the height of the COVID-19 outbreak, but was recently reopened to the public.
This story first gave the impression on AMNY.com.
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