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SUV Crashes into Livery Cab, Killing 2
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Jen Chung
Published Nov 16, 2008
Modified Nov 16, 2008
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Around 3 a.m. this morning, a 23-year-old driver in a Range Rover crashed into a livery cab in Astoria, Queens. WABC 7 reports, "Police say...the Ranger Rover t-boned the livery cab that was traveling on 34th street" and "the impact was so strong, the livery cab was sent 80 feet down the avenue." Two female passenger who were riding in the cab were killed. The SUV driver. who had been driving west on 31st Avenue, was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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