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QUEENS MAN TRAGICALLY KILLED AND DRAGGED 17 MILES

Posted by: William Gentile
February 11, 2009
Topic: Automobile Accidents

The Daily News reports that a Queens man was struck by a car this morning in Corona, Queens and then dragged by a second vehicle through 17 miles of highway from Queens into Brooklyn. The body was dragged from the Grand Central Parkway then onto the Van Wyck Expressway and then onto the Belt Parkway before other motorists got the driver's attention. The van's driver smelled something burning and pulled over once along the way, but did not discover the body until other motorists flagged him down in Brighton Beach,

Police Commisioner Ray Kelly said:

"People were signaling him to stop the vehicle, That's when the body was discovered under his car Uniformed police officers was retracing the van's route in search of body parts and articles of clothing.

The van's driver, identified as Manual Gaspar Latuna Sanchez of Corona, thought the car in front was trying to avoid a pothole and kept driving straight ahead - inadvertently picking up the body. Investigators believe the body got stuck in the van's chassis, so when the driver of the SUV pulled over to call 911 that he hit someone, the victim had already vanished.