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Cops: Boater in fatal crash off Seaford legally drunk
Photo credit: Charles Eckert | Three people died on this speedboat after driver George Canni, 65, crashed into a marsh near Seaford on Oct. 4th, 2009. The boat wreckage is being kept in an East Rockaway warehouse. (Oct. 21, 2009)
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The driver of a speedboat that crashed earlier this month off Seaford, killing him, his wife and a friend, and critically injuring four others, was legally drunk, Nassau police said Wednesday.
Det. Lt. Kevin Smith, the department's spokesman, said readings from the county medical examiner's office showed George Canni, 65, of Copiague, had a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 percent when his 40-foot...
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