A teen on his way to a sweet 16 party
was killed, after he popped out his head from a bus and hitting an
overpass on the highway.Daniel
Fernandez, of Sayreville, New Jersey, was one of 65 teenagers on the
bus Friday night while crossing the George Washington Bridge in New
York, said the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police. The
16-year-old was pronounced dead at a hospital.
The accident
occurred on the Fletcher Avenue Bridge on Interstate 95 at 6:30 pm. Alex
Franco, a security guard on the bus, told the news media that he had
warned the teenagers to leave the hatch alone.
"I told them not to
open the hatch, about three or four times, but the are kids, they do
not understand," he said. Franco said he went downstairs to tell the
driver that it was getting too hot.
"It was very hot. Everyone was
dancing. For about five minutes I was on the lower level," he said.
"Then I
heard two guys screaming, 'Oh my God, oh my God.'"
Designer
Transportation, which operates the bus, expressed their "deepest
condolences" to the family of the child. It says it plans to conduct an
internal investigation. Police said that no charges are likely to be
filed in this case.
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