Early yesterday morning, a 1992 Thunderbird crashed into an MTA bus on Hillside Avenue in Queens, killing the car's two occupants. Christopher Boyd, the driver, and passenger Eric Richmond were pronounced dead at the scene. The bus driver and one of the passenger suffered minor injuries.
Boyd had received the Thunderbird as a Christmas present, and police believe he was speeding when he lost control of the vehicle as he tried to make a turn. However, his girlfriend told the Post, "His tires slid on the wet ground. It was uncontrollable."
Boyd, 23, and Richmond, 25, who had been friends for years, had been coming home from a birthday party for Richmond's nephew. Richmond's sister had been following their car and saw the crash. Richmond's father mourned his son's death and said of his daughter, "I don't know how much she knows or what she can put together right now. She and her brother were very very close." And Boyd's mother said, "This is a tragic loss at 23 years."
