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<\/p>\nThree people are dead after a car slammed into a food truck in Queens.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It happened at 42nd Street near 19th Avenue on Monday just after 8:30 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police say a Toyota Corolla was traveling northbound on 42nd Street and struck two men who were standing near a food truck.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Three people were killed when a speeding car slammed into a food truck in Queens on Aug. 12, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CBS News New York<\/p>\n
Surveillance video shows the car speeding down the street and slamming into the truck. The Corolla then slammed into a Volvo sedan driven by another man.<\/p>\n
The 84-year-old driver of the Corolla and a 70-year-old pedestrian were rushed to the hospital, where they were pronounced dead. Their identities have not been determined. The other man, identified as Joaquin Venancio, a 42-year-old originally from Venezuela who had two children, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Tears flowed steps away from the gruesome crash.<\/p>\n
“He was always happy. He would make you happy. He would make happy any person in the world,” Avelardo Venancio said of his brother, who was a manager at Discount Tire Group in Astoria. “It’s a very bad feeling because. It’s hard, it’s hard. Nobody deserves this type of end, you know?<\/p>\n
“Maybe this time it was my brother. Maybe next time it could be anybody,” he added.<\/p>\n
Food truck owner, witnesses describe harrowing scene<\/p>\n
Giancarlos Caruso, the owner of the food truck, said it was the warnings ahead of the crash that made him instinctively step away, likely saving his life.<\/p>\n
“I still have my life and I’m just grateful that something moved me out of the way,” Caruso said. “I heard the scream. I felt it in my back and I just stepped back one step and literally he must’ve grazed my leg. That’s how much I missed it by.”<\/p>\n
Witness Jay Figueroa, who had just arrived at his job nearby, described what he saw and heard.<\/p>\n
“Soon as I come back up, I heard the really loud crash and then I just heard somebody screaming,” Figueroa said. “Really, it was just blank. Honestly, I didn’t know what to think. My first time seeing a dead person right in front of me. There was really nothing to think. It was just a bunch of emotion.”<\/p>\n
“When you see the lifeless bodies there you feel almost helpless, like, what can you do?” witness George Giakoumas said.<\/p>\n
The cause of the crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n
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