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HORROR: The front of the Honda lies behind the mangled rear in Brooklyn yesterday. Tesfa Smith and Jalani Griffiths died.
Photo: Seth Gottfried
May 8, 2006 -- Two young men died in Brooklyn early yesterday when their car spun out of control and hit several parked vehicles before smashing full force into a lamppost - a collision that ripped the Honda Accord in two, police said.
Tesfa Smith, 20, of Brooklyn and Jalani Griffiths, 22, of upstate Herkimer were killed in the 1:55 a.m. accident at Nostrand Avenue and Maple Street in East Flatbush.
The impact ejected Smith from the front seat. Griffiths was pinned in place by his seat belt. Both were pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital. Smith had been celebrating a birthday party at a friend's house, said his sister, Porsha Jones. "He would take his shirt off and give it to you if he thought you needed it," she said.
Griffiths was in the process of moving back to Brooklyn to pursue a career as an X-ray technician, relatives said.
"He had a very quiet demeanor, but he was very intelligent," his mother, Jessie, said.
HORROR: The front of the Honda lies behind the mangled rear in Brooklyn yesterday. Tesfa Smith and Jalani Griffiths died.
Photo: Seth Gottfried
May 8, 2006 -- Two young men died in Brooklyn early yesterday when their car spun out of control and hit several parked vehicles before smashing full force into a lamppost - a collision that ripped the Honda Accord in two, police said.
Tesfa Smith, 20, of Brooklyn and Jalani Griffiths, 22, of upstate Herkimer were killed in the 1:55 a.m. accident at Nostrand Avenue and Maple Street in East Flatbush.
The impact ejected Smith from the front seat. Griffiths was pinned in place by his seat belt. Both were pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital. Smith had been celebrating a birthday party at a friend's house, said his sister, Porsha Jones. "He would take his shirt off and give it to you if he thought you needed it," she said.
Griffiths was in the process of moving back to Brooklyn to pursue a career as an X-ray technician, relatives said.
"He had a very quiet demeanor, but he was very intelligent," his mother, Jessie, said.
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