Man killed, driver arrested after wrong-way crash on Belt Parkway
A fatal car accident on the Belt Parkway during the early morning hours on Thursday, July 12 left one man dead and a driver arrested.
According to authorities, at around 1:52 a.m., the vehicle collision occurred in the vicinity of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge approaching the westbound Belt Parkway at exit 4. Cops say it all started with 50-year-old Aleh Sheipak driving a Volkswagen SUV the wrong way.
Sheipak, cops say, was going eastbound in the westbound lane of the Belt when he collided head on with a Honda Accord being driven by a 20-year-old man.