3 Dead and 8 Injured After Truck Strikes Group Celebrating July 4 in Manhattan Park

3 Dead and 8 Injured After Truck Strikes Group Celebrating July 4 in Manhattan Park
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Three people were killed and eight others injured, three critically, when a pickup truck drove into a group celebrating the Fourth of July holiday in New York City, authorities said.

A Ford F-150 came down a street “at a high rate of speed” shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday. The truck went through an intersection and past a stop sign, drove onto the sidewalk and into Corlears Hook Park on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, New York Police Department Chief Jeffrey Maddrey said during a news conference.