NEW YORK — A 25-year-old woman riding in the back seat of a speeding car was killed when the driver crashed into a chain-link fence just outside John F. Kennedy International Airport and a pole crashed through the windshield, impaling them both, police said Monday.
The driver was speeding in a Honda Accord when he lost control, vaulted the sidewalk and crashed into the fence near Rockaway and Brookville boulevards about 11:20 p.m. Sunday, cops said.
The pole slammed through the windshield and pierced the driver’s chest before impaling the back-seat passenger.
Medics rushed the backseat passenger to St. John’s Hospital but she could not be saved. Her name was not immediately released.
The driver, a 28-year-old man, is in critical condition at Jamaica Hospital. A front-seat passenger, a 28-year-old woman, is in stable condition at the same hospital.
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