Man, 83, dead after crashing into tow truck from previous crash: police

An 83-year-old man was killed after he struck a parked tow truck  in Coram on Tuesday night.
An 83-year-old man was killed after he rear-ended a parked tow truck in Coram on Tuesday night. Photo credit NYPD

CORAM, N.Y. (1010 WINS) — An 83-year-old man died in Coram Tuesday night when his car struck a parked tow truck that was there to clear the road from a previous crash.

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Preston Pavlo, of Mount Sinai, was headed southbound on County Road 83 when his 2020 Nissan Altima rear-ended the empty truck that was parked in the left lane just south of Mooney Pond Road around 7:30 p.m., Suffolk County police said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene by a physician assistant from the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner.

Anyone with information on the crash is asked to contact Suffolk's Sixth Squad at 631-854-8652.

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