Seven Dead As Van Plunges Into Bronx Zoo

Seven people, including three children, have been killed after an out-of-control van drove off a road and plunged more than 100ft into New York's Bronx Zoo. The van had been heading south down the Bronx River Parkway when it suddenly bounced off the central section, careered across two lanes and then hit the guardrail.

Police said it flipped over the rail and then landed upside down in an area that is used by the zoo to store its monorail trains, some way from the animal enclosures. All seven people in the van were killed in the accident. They were three girls, including a 12 and 10-year-old, an 84-year-old man and three women, aged 80, 45 and 30, according to the Fire Department of New York.
They have not yet been named.

Police have launched an investigation into the cause of the accident, which is the second time in the last year that a car has fallen off the same stretch of the Parkway. Last June, a driver heading north lost control and his vehicle hit a divider then bounced through two lanes of traffic and fell 20ft over a guardrail, landing on a pick-up truck in a car park.
Bronx borough president Ruben Diaz Jr. vowed that city agencies would be asked to look at safety issues on the highway, including the height of the guardrail. I hope you keep that promise Mr Diaz.