19-Year-Old Girl Killed In Central Park Avenue Rollover In Yonkers

This is really a tragic incident. The young woman, Nina Cordero a Roosevelt HS graduate, was ejected from a BMW M5 during a high speed rollover that took place Saturday evening on Central Park Avenue.

The driver, who has not been identified, was driving north through the underpass below Tuckahoe Road. As he came out of the underpass and approached Sadore Lane he somehow lost control of the vehicle and the car rolled over. at a high rate of speed. Just senseless.

YONKERS - A 19-year-old woman was killed when she was flung from a car that rolled over on Central Park Avenue in Yonkers on Saturday. The woman...was a passenger in the vehicle, police said. The driver and a second passenger were hurt but their injuries aren't life threatening, police said. The accident took place about 7:15 p.m. near the intersection with Sadore Lane.

Cordero was born in Yauco, Puerto Rico. She played volleyball, softball, basketball, took part in cheerleading and was set to begin classes at Southern Westchester BOCES in September. She was a former employee at Lord & Taylor at Westchester's Ridge Hill. Link