A 29-year-old Long Island man died when his out-of-control car vaulted from the road and slammed into a gas and electrical tower, officials said Friday.
Navado Pratt, of Ronkonkoma, was thrown from his 2006 Infiniti G35 during the horrific Thursday night crash in Valley Stream, police said.
Pratt was driving south on Peninsula Blvd. when his car careened into a guardrail, vaulted into a grassy median separating the north and southbound lanes and slammed into an electrical transmission tower more than 100 feet away, cops said.
Pratt was found under the car in the water at the bottom of the medianโs creek bed, officials said. He died at the scene.
His car was wrapped around the base of the tower, which was bowing, witnesses told Newsday,
Stunned neighbors said it took a while for first responders to find Prattโs body.
โEverybody was kind of looking up and down,โ Jacques Beckerman, 42, told Newsday. โIt was like โWhereโs the body?โ โ
Police believe speed played a factor in the crash.
The Jamaican-born Pratt was a staff nurse for the Serene Home Nursing Agency, according to his Facebook page, where anguished friends mourned his passing.
โMy heart shattered this morning when I found out this horrific news,โ Roni-Lee Urban wrote. โI canโt find the words to describe how heartbroken I am right now.โ
