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Drunk Mercedes driver kills three women leaving Sweet 16 party in Long Island turnpike crash: cops

(File) The boozed-up driver, Dante Lennon, 22, was driving a 2012 Mercedes Benz on Jericho Turnpike in New Hyde Park at about 11:10 p.m., when he crashed into a 2010 Lincoln Town Car with six people inside, Nassau County Police said.
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(File) The boozed-up driver, Dante Lennon, 22, was driving a 2012 Mercedes Benz on Jericho Turnpike in New Hyde Park at about 11:10 p.m., when he crashed into a 2010 Lincoln Town Car with six people inside, Nassau County Police said.
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A drunken Mercedes-Benz driver killed three women leaving a Sweet 16 party when he slammed into the car they were riding in on a Long Island road, police said Sunday.

Dante Lennon, 22, was behind the wheel of a 2012 Mercedes-Benz when he crashed into a 2010 Lincoln Town Car with six people inside on the Jericho Turnpike in New Hyde Park about 11:10 p.m. Saturday, according to Nassau County Police.

Three women sitting in the back seat of the Town Car died at the scene. Their names were not immediately released.

The victims had just left a Sweet 16 party at the Inn at New Hyde Park nearby, a law enforcement source told the Daily News.

The Town Car’s driver and two other passengers, all adults, were hospitalized in stable condition, police said.

Cops arrested Lennon, a Freeport resident, and charged him with multiple counts of vehicular manslaughter, vehicular assault and driving while intoxicated. He was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.