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7 killed after van plummets off highway near Bronx Zoo Apr 29th 2012, 17:44 Seven people were killed Sunday after a van flipped off a highway in New York City and landed in a train yard next to the Bronx Zoo. The passengers in the car, four adults and three children, were dead on arrival, a New York Police Department spokesman told FoxNews.com. Among the dead were an 84-year-old man, three women ages 80, 45 and 30, and three girls ages 12, 10 and 7, a New York Fire Department spokesman told the Associated Press. The accident occurred at 12:30 p.m. ET. Police say the vehicle hit the median of the Bronx River Parkway, crossed traffic, then plunged more than 50 feet. The vehicle lay mangled hours later, its right doors ripped off and strewn amid the trees along with items from the car. It's not clear what caused the van to go out of control. No zoo visitors were injured. Fox News has learned that the train yard is where the zoo keeps its monorails overnight, when not in use. The accident was the second in the past year where a car fell off the same stretch of the Bronx River Parkway. Last June, the driver of a sport utility vehicle heading north lost control and the SUV hit a divider, bounced through two lanes of traffic and fell 20 feet over a guardrail, landing on a pickup truck in a parking lot. The two people in the SUV were injured. City agencies will be asked to look at safety issues on the highway including guardrail height, Bronx borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. said in a statement Sunday. "My prayers, as well as those of my office and all Bronxites, go out to the families of the seven victims," he said. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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