An 102-year-old man died from injuries sustained when his car and a marked Nassau County Police vehicle crashed last week on Long Island, police said.
According to Nassau County Police Homicide Squad detectives, the accident took place at around 8:23 a.m. on Dec. 9 in Massapequa.
Detectives say that the marked police vehicle was traveling southbound on Hicksville Road responding to an emergency call, when the driver of a 2012 Hyundai Elantra traveling northbound attempted to make a left turn onto N. Suffolk Avenue.
Drivers in both vehicles were taken to area hospitals with injuries.
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The driver of the Hyundai was subsequently pronounced dead and identified as Morris Sprachman, 102, of Seaford.
Additional information was not immediately available.
