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Man killed in Wantagh Parkway car crash

BY ANDREW STRICKLER | andrew.strickler@newsday.com

4:42 PM EST, January 31, 2009

A corvette traveling northbound on the Wantagh Parkway spun out of control and overturned. (Photo by Harry Loud / January 31, 2009)

A speeding driver was killed Saturday on the Wantagh State Parkway when his sports car went off the road and struck a tree, destroying the front end of the convertible, according to New York State Police and a witness.

The crash occurred at 12:01 p.m. when the driver, headed north on the parkway, lost control of a red 2003 Corvette just north of Sunrise Highway, went off the left side of the road, and hit a tree, police said.

The driver was taken by ambulance to Nassau University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 12:44 p.m. His name has been withheld pending notification of a family member.

Police said witness accounts and the preliminary investigation showed the driver was traveling at an unsafe speed.