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Hastings Couple, Friend Killed In Vermont Accident

This story has been updated.

The road where the fatal crash occurred was icy, police said.

The road where the fatal crash occurred was icy, police said.

Photo Credit: WCAX screen grab

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- A Hastings-on-Hudson couple, Ryszard and Anita Malarczyk, and a friend, Jaroslaw Karczewski were killed Tuesday in an accident on U.S. Route 4 in Killington, Vt., according to multiple reports.

The victims and three survivors were traveling in a Cadillac Escalade that was hit head-on by a tractor-trailer crossing into oncoming traffic on the steep, icy highway, the Burlington Free Press reported. 

The three survivors Monica Malarczyk, 22, Peter Malarczyk, 20, and Natalie Malarczyk, 16, are believed to be the children of Ryszard, 51, and Anita, 50, according to WCAX-TV. They are being treated at the University of Vermont Medical Center, the reports said. Karczewski, 51, was visiting the couple from Poland. 

The truck driver, Lashawn Jones, 41, of Alpharetta, Ga., was taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries, the Free Press reported. 

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