Police said Remington Washington, of 1104 Beverly Road in the Kensington section, went into a rage after his wife, Joyce Lynn Watson, 39, told him she wanted a divorce. Family friends told the media the couple, who were natives of Barbados and married for 15 years, had been having domestic problems for months. Police said the wife had filed a domestic incident report against him last fall and both parties later filed complaints against each other.

Police speculated that after Watson, a salesman, contacted the nanny for their 14-year-old and 3-year-old daughters, who were asleep in a nearby bedroom, he fled the apartment in his underwear and drove six miles to the Belt Parkway. He subsequently crashed his 1998 Lexus sedan into a gas-tanker parked at the Mobil gas station, located near the Flatbush Avenue exit, causing an estimated 2,000 gallons to spill onto the eastbound lanes of the highway.

After the nanny called 911, paramedics arrived and found the seriously injured woman lying on the bathroom floor, but they could not revive her. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

As a result of the crash, Watson suffered a broken pelvis and was taken to Lutheran Medical Center for treatment and a psychiatric examination, officials said. As of Monday, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office said an arraignment and charges against him were pending.

The gasoline spill, which firemen sprayed with foam to prevent bursting into flames, closed all six lanes of the highway for about 30 minutes then slowed eastbound rush hour traffic Friday morning. The incident forced the gas station to close while environmental service companies spent several hours cleaning up the site. It was open and back in operation yesterday.

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