Family tragedy as mother, grandmother and her three children killed in New York crash on the way home from a family party

Myriam Lebrun was en route to Brooklyn with her family when their car veered off a Long Island highway, crashed into a tree and burst into flames, killing all of them

Lebrun's mother Moise Yolande, as well her children Marcus Jeanty, Marcel Jeanty and Kayla Jeanty were all killed

A woman, her children, and her mother were returning from a family gathering when their car veered off a Long Island highway, crashed into a tree and burst into flames, killing all of them, authorities said Sunday.



Myriam Lebrun, 37, was en route to Brooklyn and traveling on the Southern State Parkway just before 11 p.m. Saturday when her Honda Accord left the westbound lanes near Exit 38 in Babylon, state police told the Associated Press.

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Mother: Myriam Lebrun, pictured, was killed along with her three children and her mother in a car crash Children: 14-year-old Marcus Jeanty, 9-year-old Marcel Jeanty and 8-year-old Kayla Jeanty were all killed in the crash

All five people in the car died. The other victims were Lebrun's mother and her children, police told The New York Daily News.



They were identified as 68-year-old Moise Yolande, 14-year-old Marcus Jeanty, 9-year-old Marcel Jeanty and 8-year-old Kayla Jeanty.

'There was a heavy fire condition to the front of the vehicle and (to) the passenger’s side,' Robert Cabano, North Babylon's First Assistant Fire Chief, told The New York Daily News.



Cabano told the newspaper the incident was 'absolutely tragic.'



State police told the Associated Press it was unclear why the car veered off the road. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

The crash shut down the area of the road for several hours.