LI Maritime Student Injured In Maine Crash That Left 4 Dead

NORTH BABYLON, NY —A North Babylon resident was injured in a deadly crash in Maine that left four Maine Maritime Academy students dead and injured two others, Maine State police said.

Joshua Goncalves-Radding, 20, an academy student, was driving a 2013 Range Rover around 2 a.m. Saturday in the small town of Castine, Maine, when the car crashed into a tree and burst into flames.

Four passengers who were also students all died, police said. They were identified as Brian Kenealy, 20, of York, Maine; Chase Fossett, 21, of Gardiner, Maine; Luke Simpson, 22, of Rockport, Massachusetts; and Riley Ignacio-Cameron, 20, of Aquinnah, Massachusetts.

Goncalves-Radding and two other students were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

"Our community is grieving for these young lives and for their families," Jerry S. Paul, Maine Maritime Academy President said in a statement. "While we have lost beloved members of our student body, tonight there are four families who have lost their children."

Maine State police are currently investigating the accident.

Patch has reached out to the Maine Maritime Academy for comment.