Witness: Driver in Train-Car Crash Was Fleeing Earlier Crash

Witness: Driver in Train-Car Crash Was Fleeing Earlier Crash
Emergency personnel look over a train that derailed after striking a vehicle in Westbury, N.Y., on Feb. 27, 2019. Seth Wenig/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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WESTBURY, N.Y.—A witness told police that the driver who caused a deadly crash by trying to go around a lowered railroad gate on New York’s Long Island was fleeing the scene of an earlier crash, a police official said on Feb. 27.

“The witness said that individual was involved in an accident and went around the gate,” Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said.