Officials: Driver, 85, dies after car goes into Oyster Bay marina
First responders at the scene in Oyster Bay Thursday afternoon where a car crashed through a fence, flipped over, and ended up in the marina. Credit: Neil Miller
An 85-year-old man died Thursday after his car crashed through a parking lot fence and into the water at the Theodore Roosevelt Park Marina in Oyster Bay, officials said.
A Nassau police news release did not identify the man, who was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.
According to the release, the victim was driving a 2011 Volkswagon Jetta through the parking lot at 5 Bay Ave. when the car hit a fence and continued into the bay shortly after 3 p.m. The man became trapped inside the submerged car.
Bay constables and police removed him from the water.
Police were still investigating the cause of the crash, according to the release.
A town spokesperson said Thursday afternoon that the man was in cardiac arrest when he was airlifted to Syosset Hospital. The spokesperson said good Samaritans and a bay constable had tried unsuccessfully to free the man.
Nicholas Spangler is a general assignment reporter and has worked at Newsday since 2010.
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