Maspeth, N.Y. - Three people are dead and 11 others injured after a multi-vehicle crash early Wednesday morning on the Long Island Expressway in Queens.
Investigators say it happened just before 4:30 a.m. on the east-bound lower level near Maurice Avenue in Maspeth.
Police and a witness say an Infinity was traveling at a high rate of speed and hit a divider with such force, the car spit in two.
Three people were thrown from the vehicle and died.
Police say four additional vehicles, including a dump truck, crashed when they approached the scene.
"Cars just kept coming and crashing into each other and then I ran from there and then we tried to help those guys right here," said one witness.