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BRIARCLIFF, N.Y. — A minivan going in the wrong direction crashed into two cars Sunday, killing eight people, including four young cousins and the mother of one of them.
State police Investigator Joseph Becerra said the minivan was southbound in the northbound lanes of the Taconic State Parkway north of New York City when it struck a sport utility vehicle and hit a third vehicle before rolling down an embankment and bursting into flames.
The children who died were girls ages 2, 5, 7 and 9. A 5- year-old boy was hospitalized.
Three men from Yonkers in the SUV were killed, Becerra said. Two people in the third vehicle were hospitalized.
