Three dead after truck strikes group on Fourth of July in New York City park

Ford F-150 came down a street at a high rate of speed', went past a stop sign, on to the sidewalk and into a park

Three people were killed and at least nine others injured, four critically, when a pickup truck drove into a group celebrating the Fourth of July holiday in New York City, authorities said.

Police have identified 44-year-old Daniel Hyden, of New Jersey, as the driver behind the deadly collision. Hyden was allegedly driving a gray Ford F-150 that came down a street at a high rate of speed" shortly before 9pm on Thursday. The truck went through an intersection and past a stop sign, drove on to the sidewalk and into Corlears Hook Park on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Jeffrey Maddrey, the New York police department chief, said during a news conference.