Clara Estrella had recently come to the United States from the Dominican Republic. Paulino said the workers were made to sign a paper saying they would not take private transportation and would take the shuttle van instead. “It is with heavy hearts that we can confirm our Chester Distribution Center team suffered the loss of three valued team members early this morning,” a spokesperson for Party City said in a statement. The victims were traveling back from the Amscan distribution plant in Chester, NY, in Orange County, which is owned by the retail giant Party City. None of the passengers were reportedly wearing seatbelts. “It took about 45 minutes to get everybody extricated from the vehicles.” Estrella had been worried about the buses she used to get to work. Raymond Walter of the Palisades Interstate Parkway Police. “She came over here to have a better life.”Īnother eight passengers in the van were injured and taken to area hospitals after Massey apparently suffered a medical emergency and crashed the Ford Econoline van on the parkway near Englewood Cliffs and Alpine, NJ, police said. “She was a beautiful person,” Estrella’s cousin Nathaly Paulino told WNBC.
One of the New Yorkers killed in a rollover crash on the Palisades Parkway that left four dead had recently arrived from the Dominican Republic hoping for a fresh start in life - but had concerns about the shuttle vans taking her and others to work, a relative said.Ĭlara Estrella, 49, was killed along with Jose Luis Romero Munoz, 59, and Candida Frias, who would have been 60 on Saturday, and the driver, George Massey, 54, of Yonkers, in the Friday morning crash.
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