Driver in LIE wrong-way crash: 'I'm blessed'
Photo credit: Steve Pfost | Joe DeGuardia's Mercedes-Benz was hit head-on by a wrong-way driver on the Long Island Expressway, police say. (July 30, 2012)
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For a split second, Joe DeGuardia thought he was dead.
The boxing promoter's Mercedes-Benz had just been hit head-on early Sunday by a wrong-way driver on the Long Island Expressway. The car he had purchased just two weeks before was spinning out of control, and DeGuardia was drifting in and out of consciousness.
Through it all, he thought of his children.
"I was thinking about...
