3 dead and 8 injured after truck collides with 4th of July revelers in Manhattan Park

Three people were killed and eight others injured, three of them seriously, when a pickup truck drove into a group celebrating Independence Day on July 4 in New York City, authorities said.

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

Two victims were dead at the scene, Maddrey said. A third victim was later pronounced dead, a police spokesman said on Friday.

The names of the victims were not immediately released.

Among the injured, four people are in critical condition, three seriously injured and two slightly injured, said the deputy head of the fire department, Michael Meyers.

The first fire crew to arrive on the scene found the pickup truck lying on top of four of the victims and firefighters worked to quickly free them before emergency personnel began treatment, Meyers said.

Investigators do not believe the crash was a terrorist attack, Maddrey and New York Mayor Eric Adams said in a press conference at the scene of the accident.

Authorities tested the driver for possible alcohol consumption, which was believed to be a factor in the accident, Maddrey said.

Charges against the driver were still pending on Friday.