TWO KILLED IN THREE ACCIDENTS
By Charles Rogers
Passenger from badly damaged four-door Nissan, involved in one of local accidents, was taken to hospital after sustaining injuries in collision at Remsen Avenue and Avenue Nlast Thursday morning. Driver of Toyota SUV(at left) was also injured. (Story, more photos in Other News.) Neil S. Friedman In what one police officer called "a horrendous series of accidents, " three crashes in the area left two men dead, a police sergeant critically injured and two people hospitalized with injuries.
The crash that left two dead occur-red at 12:47 a.m. Sunday when a 2008 BMW crashed into a parked box truck on Avenue D at the Rockaway Park-way/Rockaway Avenue intersection.
The driver and apparent owner of the vehicle, Warren Davies, 35, of East 42nd Street, Brooklyn, was killed instantly, according to police. His passenger, Roger Gill, 34, of Springfield Gardens, Queens, had to be cut out of the vehicle and was taken to nearby Brookdale Hospital, where he succumbed at 2:30 a.m., officials said.
A report filed at the 69th Precinct indicated that witnesses said the BMW was traveling at a high rate of speed and it appeared the driver "just lost control." The car turned sideways as it slammed into the truck, the witnesses said.
Gill was an Olympic sprinter from Guyana and competed for his country in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.