Four people were killed Friday night after a car careened into a Queens creek that feeds into the East River, officials said.
Rescue divers leaped into Steinway Creek off 19th Ave. near 37th St. in Astoria at about 10:30 p.m. after the unidentified vehicle shot down a rain-swept dead-end street and smashed through a 3-foot-high chain-link fence, police sources said.
The auto plummeted 15 feet before hitting the water, the sources said.
Badly injured, the driver, a man, managed to get out of the car, swim to shore and call 911, the sources said.
When rescuers arrived, he was found at the end of the road, waving them down
Police and FDNY divers pulled out two men and two women they found trapped in the vehicle, which was submerged in 8 to 10 feet of water, officials said.
“They were pulling out one person at a time and rolling them down the street to an awaiting ambulance,” said one witness. “Paramedics were sitting on top of one of them performing CPR as they were being rolled out.”
The driver — part of his face covered by a bandage — spoke to investigators at the scene before he and two of his gravely injured companions were rushed to Elmhurst Hospital, where the two critically injured victims died.
Two other critically injured passengers were taken to Mount Sinai in Astoria, but doctors were unable to save them.
