Two people were killed this morning on Long Island after a high-speed chase with Suffolk County cops ended with a driver hitting a tree at a speed of up to 100 mph.
The unidentified man was fleeing south on Straight Path Road in West Babylon about 8:30 a.m. when he lost control of his car, veered across the northbound lanes and slammed into the tree.
One witness said the car was weaving in and out of traffic before the fatal crash.
The car was going so fast that "they were flying," said James Smalls, 41.
The impact just south of 12th Street left the vehicle, which flipped onto its side, demolished, with pieces strewn across the four-lane road.
The driver and his passenger died in the crash.
Police shut down a 10-block stretch of Straight Path Road for several hours as they worked to remove the driver’s body, which was left dangling out of the side of the upturned car.
It’s unclear how long police were chasing the man, or why.
An unrelated incident around 12:15 p.m. sent emergency personnel scrambling as a van exiting the nearby Southern State Parkway slammed into the driver’s side of a Chrysler.
The driver of the Chrysler and his passenger had to be cut out of the vehicle. Both were taken to an area hospital.
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