5 killed in 2-car smash-up on Cross Island Parkway on New Year’s Day: cops

Five people were killed in a two-vehicle smash-up that caused their ride to flip over on the Cross Island Parkway in Queens early New Year’s Day, authorities said. A Mazda sedan was heading north on the expressway “at a high rate of speed” when it rammed into a curb and overturned around 6 a.m., police sources said. Then, a man driving a Honda in the same direction slammed into the Mazda near Exit 36S, cops and sources said. Four adults inside the Mazda were thrown from the vehicle and pronounced...