Victims Mourned After Wrong-Way Crash On Grand Central Parkway

DOUGLASTON, QUEENS — The NYPD is investigating a two-car collision on the Grand Central Parkway Saturday morning that left three people dead and one person with critical injuries.

Megan Ann Smith, 26, was riding in her boyfriend's gray 2010 Hyundai sedan about 5:30 a.m. when a driver going the wrong way on the westbound side of the Grand Central Parkway struck their car, according to police and a New York Daily News report.

The crash happened near the Little Neck Parkway exit, police said.

Smith, the driver of the other car and a passenger in the other car were rushed to the hospital, where they died.

The NYPD did not released the name of the driver responsible for the crash or the name of Smith's boyfriend, who is in critical condition at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

The passenger in the other car, a 2011 Honda Accord, was identified by police as 36-year-old Schenectady resident Sayquan Hallums.

Smith was a Queens native who graduated from St. John’s Preparatory School in Astoria in 2011, friends told the Daily News.

“I’m kind of shocked because no one ever expects something like this to happen,” Frankie Sacchettie, 26, who graduated St. John’s with Smith, told the news outlet. “She was such a nice girl and didn’t deserve to go like that.”