More details have emerged about the tragic car accident  that ended 7 lives today, after a car with 7 passengers plummeted into the Bronx Zoo (2 of the victims pictured above).
Check the details after the jump
A family of seven has died after their minivan plummeted 59ft from a freeway into the grounds of New York’s Bronx Zoo today.
Police say 45-year-old Maria Gonzalez was at the wheel of a white 2004 Honda Pilot when it vaulted off an overpass of the Bronx River Parkway, killing three generations of her family.
She died instantly in the crash, which claimed the lives of her parents, Jacob Nunez, 85, Ana Julia Martinez, 81, her sister Maria Nunez, 39, her 10-year-old daughter Jocelyn Gonzalez, and nieces Niely and Marly Rosario, ages seven and three.
A police source told MailOnline all seven of the victims had to be extracted from the crashed vehicle and were pronounced dead at the scene.
According to a police report, the van was headed south Sunday afternoon around 12:30pm on the Bronx River Parkway, a highway in the north of the city.
The vehicle then bounced off the median, crossed all southbound lanes over to the guardrail and fell 59ft.
The car landed in a heavily-overgrown area of the Zoo grounds, which made the recovery difficult for emergency workers.
No criminality is suspected.
