Palisades Parkway crash victim Clara Estrella worried about work shuttle: kin

One of many New Yorkers killed in a rollover crash on the Palisades Parkway that left 4 useless had just lately arrived from the Dominican Republic hoping for a recent begin in life — however had issues in regards to the shuttle vans taking her and others to work, a relative stated.

Clara Estrella, 49, was killed together with Jose Luis Romero Munoz, 59, and Candida Frias, who would have been 60 on Saturday, and the driving force, George Massey, 54, of Yonkers, within the Friday morning crash.

“She was a ravishing individual,” Estrella’s cousin Nathaly Paulino told WNBC. “She came visiting right here to have a greater life.”

One other eight passengers within the van have been injured and brought to space hospitals after Massey apparently suffered a medical emergency and crashed the Ford Econoline van on the parkway close to Englewood Cliffs and Alpine, NJ, police stated.

“It was a chaotic scene,” stated Lt. Raymond Walter of the Palisades Interstate Parkway Police. “It took about 45 minutes to get all people extricated from the automobiles.”

Not one of the passengers have been reportedly sporting seatbelts.

The victims have been touring again from the Amscan distribution plant in Chester, NY, in Orange County, which is owned by the retail big Occasion Metropolis.

“It’s with heavy hearts that we are able to verify our Chester Distribution Heart workforce suffered the lack of three valued workforce members early this morning,” a spokesperson for Occasion Metropolis stated in an announcement.

Paulino stated the employees have been made to signal a paper saying they’d not take non-public transportation and would take the shuttle van as an alternative.

“The transportation was at all times an issue,” she stated. “The bus runs out of fuel or will get misplaced. It’s at all times one thing with these buses.”

Makes an attempt to succeed in a Occasion Metropolis spokesperson have been unsuccessful Saturday.

The vans have been coordinated by an organization referred to as On Goal Staffing in Inwood, WNBC reported. The one that answered the cellphone there Saturday hung up on a Publish reporter.