Post by coots on Jan 13, 2015 20:02:05 GMT -5
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Cops: Driver On Drugs Slams Into Vehicle in Lynbrook, Kills Two
This was a car!
A driver high on drugs killed two occupants of a vehicle he slammed into during a high-speed crash that shut down Sunrise Highway in Lynbrook overnight Monday, Nassau County police said.
John Aniano, 25, of Lynbrook was going west in a Mercedes-Benz when he smashed into the rear of a 2005 Toyota near Forest Avenue just before 8:15 p.m. Monday, sending it careening into the eastbound lanes of the highway, where it struck the driver's side of a 2007 Toyota.
Aniano's vehicle continued about 150 feet down the road until it eventually stopped just east of Atlantic Avenue, said Lynbrook police Inspector Ronald Fleury, who responded to the scene.
The front seat passenger in the 2005 Toyota, Sharon Rene Long, 53, of Lynbrook, was pronounced dead at the scene, Nassau police said. The driver, John Jones, 54, of Lynbrook, was pronounced dead at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, police said.
A Nassau police spokesman said the victims lived at the same address but he was unsure of their relationship.
The accident scene shook and puzzled employees of Sunrise Highway businesses.
At the Lynbrook Diner, on Sunrise and Atlantic Avenue, patrons ran out, said manager Peter Lafkas.
"I heard a loud noise - it sounded like an earthquake," he said. "I didn't see anything, but I felt it."
At Lynbrook Wine and Liquor, just east of Atlantic, the store owner heard a screech and crash, then ran out also, thinking her parked car had been hit.
On Sunrise, she saw two damaged cars, one on each side of the concrete barriers on the median.
The eastbound vehicle "was so heavily damaged that I couldn't figure out whether it was the back end or the front end," said the owner, who declined to give her full name.
Aniano was being treated for leg injuries Tuesday, and the driver of the 2007 Toyota, a 67-year-old man, was taken to a hospital, police said.
Detectives said Aniano appeared to be under the influence of drugs and that two bottles of prescription drugs were found in the car. The names of the drugs were not immediately available.
Fleury said witnesses told authorities the Mercedes was going "fast" or "very fast," so police are relying on accident scene investigators to extrapolate details of what happened.
Aniano, of 14D Roxy Pl., is tentatively scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday at the hospital on two counts of second-degree manslaughter, two counts of second-degree vehicular manslaughter and second-degree driving while ability impaired by drugs and alcohol.
His Mercedes and the 2005 Toyota were impounded for brake and safety inspections. The 2007 Toyota was released at the scene. Police said the investigation is ongoing.
Cops: Driver On Drugs Slams Into Vehicle in Lynbrook, Kills Two
This was a car!
A driver high on drugs killed two occupants of a vehicle he slammed into during a high-speed crash that shut down Sunrise Highway in Lynbrook overnight Monday, Nassau County police said.
John Aniano, 25, of Lynbrook was going west in a Mercedes-Benz when he smashed into the rear of a 2005 Toyota near Forest Avenue just before 8:15 p.m. Monday, sending it careening into the eastbound lanes of the highway, where it struck the driver's side of a 2007 Toyota.
Aniano's vehicle continued about 150 feet down the road until it eventually stopped just east of Atlantic Avenue, said Lynbrook police Inspector Ronald Fleury, who responded to the scene.
The front seat passenger in the 2005 Toyota, Sharon Rene Long, 53, of Lynbrook, was pronounced dead at the scene, Nassau police said. The driver, John Jones, 54, of Lynbrook, was pronounced dead at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, police said.
A Nassau police spokesman said the victims lived at the same address but he was unsure of their relationship.
The accident scene shook and puzzled employees of Sunrise Highway businesses.
At the Lynbrook Diner, on Sunrise and Atlantic Avenue, patrons ran out, said manager Peter Lafkas.
"I heard a loud noise - it sounded like an earthquake," he said. "I didn't see anything, but I felt it."
At Lynbrook Wine and Liquor, just east of Atlantic, the store owner heard a screech and crash, then ran out also, thinking her parked car had been hit.
On Sunrise, she saw two damaged cars, one on each side of the concrete barriers on the median.
The eastbound vehicle "was so heavily damaged that I couldn't figure out whether it was the back end or the front end," said the owner, who declined to give her full name.
Aniano was being treated for leg injuries Tuesday, and the driver of the 2007 Toyota, a 67-year-old man, was taken to a hospital, police said.
Detectives said Aniano appeared to be under the influence of drugs and that two bottles of prescription drugs were found in the car. The names of the drugs were not immediately available.
Fleury said witnesses told authorities the Mercedes was going "fast" or "very fast," so police are relying on accident scene investigators to extrapolate details of what happened.
Aniano, of 14D Roxy Pl., is tentatively scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday at the hospital on two counts of second-degree manslaughter, two counts of second-degree vehicular manslaughter and second-degree driving while ability impaired by drugs and alcohol.
His Mercedes and the 2005 Toyota were impounded for brake and safety inspections. The 2007 Toyota was released at the scene. Police said the investigation is ongoing.
