Fiery crash kills 5 in Long Island Ttown

3 Children among the Dead

Five people died — including three children — in a fiery car crash Saturday night in Babylon, Long Island, police said.

Myriam Lebrun, 37, of Brooklyn, was driving west on the Southern State Parkway with her three children and their grandmother, when the car veered off the highway between exits 38 and 39, state police said. 
New York State Police said Lebrun was on her way home to Brooklyn after visiting family in Suffolk County when the 1998 Honda Accord struck a tree and burst into flames.
 
Lebrun, her children Marcus Jeanty, 14, Marcel Jeanty, 9, and Kayla Jeanty, 8, and their grandmother Moise Yolande, 68, died at the scene, police said.
North Babylon First Assistant Fire Chief Robert Cabano, who was one of the first to arrive on the scene, said flames pouring out of the car reached 10 to 15 feet in the air.

“There was a heavy fire condition to the front of the vehicle and (to) the passenger’s side,” Cabano said. One passenger had been ejected from the car and the four others were trapped inside. 

“It’s absolutely tragic,” he said. “It’ just tragic. It’s horrible.”
It took firefighters 15 minutes to put out the blaze. It was not clear if the family died on impact, he said. “I would hope so. No one should suffer in that way.” 

It was not immediately known what caused the car to drive off the parkway and officials were investigating Sunday.