Two killed, two injured in Roosevelt Blvd. crash

Philadelphia police are investigating an early morning collision yesterday that left two people dead on Roosevelt Boulevard in the Northeast.

Police said a 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy were pronounced dead at the scene after the 2:37 a.m. crash on the Boulevard near Southampton Road.

The 20-year-old had been driving south on the Boulevard in a Honda Civic with the teenager as his passenger when their car was struck by a Lexus driven by a 27-year-old man who was going north in the southbound lane, police said.

The Lexus driver was taken to Frankford Hospital, Torresdale Division, and later transferred to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in stable condition, according to a nursing supervisor at Frankford.

His 39-year-old female passenger remained in stable condition at Frankford, the supervisor said.

Police did not release the names of anyone involved, pending notification of family.

Accident investigators were trying to determine how the accident happened and were awaiting results of toxicology tests conducted on the driver of the Lexus, according to police.

Roosevelt Boulevard was closed for a time after the crash.

The Boulevard has long been considered one of Philadelphia's most dangerous and deadly streets. More than 60 people died in accidents along it from 2001 through 2005, according to police and state transportation officials.