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Authorities to weigh charges for driver in fatal crash

Left, Joseph Beer, the driver in an accident

Photo credit: Handout, Howard Schnapp | Left, Joseph Beer, the driver in an accident on the Southern State Parkway on Oct. 8, 2012 that killed four people. Right, the car after the accident.

Toxicology tests and crash reconstruction reports will determine whether a teenage driver with a learner permit will face charges in an early-morning Southern State Parkway wreck that killed four of his friends, authorities said Tuesday.

Joseph Beer, 17, of Richmond Hill, Queens, was driving a 2012 Subaru Impreza early Monday morning when he lost control and slammed into trees after leaving...

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