A 54-year-old Larchmont man traveling in a livery cab was among two people killed Saturday morning in a three-vehicle crash on the Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx, police said. Patrick Sheehan, 54, a passenger in the Lincoln Town Car and cab driver Ata Noorzi, 51, of Queens, were pronounced dead at the scene shortly after the 7 a.m. crash, city police said. The collision occurred when a black Ford Explorer traveling north on the parkway near Orchard Beach Road struck the median, propelling the SUV into the southbound lanes where the cab and later a third vehicle, a GMC SUV, struck it, police said. The driver of the Ford, a 45-year-old man, and the occupants of the GMC, a 15-year-old boy and a woman from Pelham, were taken to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. All were in stable condition, police said. Detectives are still investigating the crash and made no arrests as of Saturday evening, police said. Sheehan, a married father of three boys, was on his way to the airport for his job as a banker at Wells Fargo, said his brother, Paul Sheehan. Patrick Sheehan, who grew up in Chester, Pa., and at one point served as a youth soccer coach in a Westchester County league, was known for his work ethic and sense of humor, his brother said. Sheehan’s son and other relatives who stood in front of the family home on Stuyvesant Avenue on Saturday night asked for privacy from the media, calling the crash a terrible tragedy. Denise Garvey said she was driving her GMC south on the parkway when the Ford suddenly came barreling across the divider in front of her vehicle. “All I remember seeing was a car jumping the divider,” the 49-year-old mother said. “I saw it airborne — that’s how quick it was.” Garvey said she didn’t remember seeing the livery cab in front of her and initially thought her GMC was the only vehicle that struck the Ford SUV. When she and her son climbed out of their vehicle, she saw fellow drivers, who had stopped to help, run toward the Ford to assist the driver. It took a few moments before she and others spotted the cab. “There was nothing left of it,” Garvey said. Garvey was taking her son, Joseph, a student at Iona Preparatory School, to a debate competition at Fordham Preparatory in the Bronx. She said except for bumps and bruises, she and her son weren’t seriously injured. “It‘s a 10 minute ride from my house — who would have thought?” she said.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 22:45:24 +0000
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