text: A lawyer called the treacherous southbound stretch of Bronx River Parkway where seven people died on Sunday cursed — and blamed authorities for not widening it. 
   
   “I think it would be fair to say that this is the Bermuda Triangle of the Bronx River Parkway,” attorney Eric Buckvar said. 
   
   Buckvar sued the city and state on behalf of some of the six people killed in a horrific 2006 accident near the Bronx Zoo between exits 5 and 6 — the same location as Sunday’s catastrophe. 
   
   Police investigate a multiple car accident with 5 DOA's and 12 injuries at Bronx River Pkwy near 177th Street in the Bronx on Sunday 07-09-06. [Photo by Anthony DelMundo] (Anthony DelMundo for New York Da) 
   
   In both cases — and in other accidents there over the years — cars have hit the median and gone out of control. 
   
   THREE GENERATIONS OF BRONX FAMILY WIPED OUT IN HORRIFIC BRONX ZOO PARKWAY CRASH 
   
   Family members mourn outside Jacobi Hospital after a car accident killed 7 people on the Bronx River Parkway. (Andrew Theodorakis/Daily News) 
   
   Buckvar said traffic tends to slow suddenly there, and that officials have considered adding a new lane. 
   
   “We did a lot of discovery of state records, and we found there was a problem. Traffic would slow down very quickly, and sometimes cars would lose control,” he said. 
   
   Police investigate a multiple car accident with 5 DOA's and 12 injuries at Bronx River Pkwy near 177th Street in the Bronx on Sunday 07-09-06. [Photo by Anthony DelMundo] (DelMundo, Anthony freelance NYDN/Anthony DelMundo) 
   
   “They considered putting a new lane, but they didn’t do it because they were considering replacing the whole viaduct,” Buckvar said. 
   
   FAMILY OF VICTIMS IN TRAGIC BRONX ZOO PARKWAY CRASH STRUGGLE AFTER LOSING 7 
   
   Police investigate a multiple car accident with 5 DOA's and 12 injuries at Bronx River Pkwy near 177th Street in the Bronx on Sunday 07-09-06. [Photo by Anthony DelMundo] (DelMundo, Anthony freelance NYDN/Anthony DelMundo) 
   
   State officials could not be reached at press time. 
   
   In the 2006 case, six members of one family, including a 6-year-old girl, were killed when their Acura Legend went out of control, went over the concrete median and into oncoming traffic. 
   
   Investigator examine car that flipped over the wall on the North bound Bronx River Parkway at 177 street where a fatal accident that killed four people in the same car. Photo by Robert Stridiron. 07/09/06 (Freelance/Robert Stridiron) 
   
   SEE THE GALLERY: TOUCHING SHOTS FROM FAMILY'S PHOTO ALBUMS 
   
   Buckvar said that after settlements in that 2006 case, the city replaced the troublesome median barrier — but it hasn’t stopped the mayhem there. 
   
   Investigator examine car that flipped over the wall on the North bound Bronx River Parkway at 177 street where a fatal accident that killed four people in the same car. Photo by Robert Stridiron. 07/09/06 (Theodorakis, Andrew/Theodorakis, Andrew) 
   
   Last June, a car hit the median and sailed into the air, landing on E. 180th St. Both the driver and passenger survived. 
   
   “For the second time in a year, an accident on the Bronx River Parkway has led to a car falling off the highway to the streets below,” Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz said in a statement. 
   
   “In the coming weeks, my office will reach out to the appropriate agencies to examine the safety issues on the Bronx River Parkway and to discuss potential solutions.” 
   
   hkennedy@nydailynews.com ||||| A speeding driver clipped a highway divider and damaged a tire before her SUV plunged off a highway and into a ravine on the grounds of the Bronx Zoo, killing three generations of a family, including three children, police said Monday. 
   
   Skid marks and a scraped concrete barrier mark the spot where a van carrying seven occupants plunged off the highway to a wooded area below, Sunday April 29, 2012, in New York. Authorities say the out-of-control... (Associated Press) 
   
   Seven candles are lit Monday, April 30, 2012, in the Bronx borough of New York, in a memorial to the seven family members who died the previous day in a horrifying when the SUV carrying three generations... (Associated Press) 
   
   Police investigate the destroyed van that plunged over the Bronx River Parkway, Sunday April 29, 2012, in New York. Authorities say the out-of-control van plunged off a roadway near the Bronx Zoo, killing... (Associated Press) 
   
   Maria Gonzalez was believed to have been driving 68 mph in a 50 mph zone when she bumped the concrete barrier between the two directions of the highway and the left front tire went off kilter. Police said she was likely going with the flow of traffic on the Bronx River Parkway, which is often faster. 
   
   The SUV skittered Sunday across three lanes of traffic, hit a concrete curb on the right and went airborne over a 4-foot-tall fence. The vehicle flipped in midair and landed about six stories below in an unoccupied part of the Bronx Zoo. All seven people on board were killed. 
   
   The medical examiner's office on Monday ruled the deaths accidental. Autopsies showed that all seven died from blunt force trauma. Police have said all the occupants were wearing seatbelts. 
   
   There's no evidence to suggest Gonzalez was texting or on the phone, said New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne. 
   
   "There's no evidence of a mechanical failure, but the investigation is ongoing," Browne said. 
   
   The crash came as the victims drove to a family party with a set of grandparents who were visiting from the Dominican Republic. 
   
   Juan Ramon Rosario, who lost his wife, Maria Nunez, and two children, made comments Monday outside his late sister-in-law's house as he left for a funeral home. He was working at a car wash when he heard of the accident. 
   
   "It's terrible for him and the whole family," said Andres Fulgencio, a cousin translating for the 34-year-old father of two, who speaks Spanish. 
   
   "Right now he can't think. He can't feel," Fulgencio said. "His feelings are deep inside." 
   
   The accident was the second in the past year in which a vehicle fell off the same stretch of road. In June, an SUV hit a divider, bounced across 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. 
   
   Killed Sunday were Jacob Nunez, 85, and Ana Julia Martinez, 81, both from the Dominican Republic; their daughters, driver Maria Gonzalez, 45, and Maria Nunez, 39; and grandchildren Jocelyn Gonzalez, 10, the daughter of the driver, and Niely Rosario, 7, and Marly Rosario, 3, both daughters of Nunez. 
   
   The grandparents had arrived from the Dominican Republic three days earlier, relatives said. They had 13 children, six of whom live in the United States. The SUV had just picked up the grandparents to take them from one home to another for family festivities. 
   
   "This was supposed to be a time of great happiness," said Isabelle Morel, a cousin of two of the victims, also speaking in Spanish through a translator. 
   
   On Monday, relatives and friends gathered in front of Maria Gonzalez's home, a two-story white clapboard house in a middle-class neighborhood of the South Bronx. Gonzalez worked at nearby Fordham University in maintenance. 
   
   "I don't want to live anymore. I want to die," her husband, Juan Gonzalez, said Monday. 
   
   Two flower bouquets and seven tall religious candles lined the sidewalk near the stoop. Behind a grate of a windowsill sat photographs of three young girls, one in pink overalls and a white blouse, another sporting a pixie haircut. 
   
   The grandparents' bodies are being flown to the Dominican Republic for their funeral, and the other victims were being prepared for funerals in the Bronx. 
   
   The family has opened a bank account and is asking for donations because the cost of burying everyone at once is more than they can afford. A viewing was scheduled for Thursday. 
   
   Ronald Werner, deputy chief of the Fire Department of New York, said the crash scene, less than 5 miles from Gonzalez's home, was difficult to see, with contents of the SUV, including a pink schoolbag, strewn about. 
   
   "When you see young kids that have been hurt or injured or lose their life, it's always harder than if you find someone that's an elder age," Werner said. "It affects all our units." 
   
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   Associated Press writers Colleen Long and Jim Fitzgerald contributed to this report.
target: – Yesterday's horrifying car crash near the Bronx zoo occurred at the Bronx River Parkway's "Bermuda Triangle," where accidents have happened before, a lawyer tells the New York Daily News. In fact, Eric Buckvar sued New York state and city for some of the six people who died in 2006 after hitting the median and barreling into oncoming traffic. And just last June, another car struck the median and went airborne, landing at street level—but both driver and passenger survived. “We did a lot of discovery of state records, and we found there was a problem," said Buckvar. "Traffic would slow down very quickly, and sometimes cars would lose control." Officials thought about putting in a new lane, the lawyer said, but other plans interfered. Seven people died in yesterday's crash when an SUV hit the median and plunged off the freeway. But police say the driver, Maria Gonzalez, was speeding when she hit the median, doing 68 mph in a 50-mph zone, the AP reports.