Man sentenced to 7-21 years for fatal drunk driving accident on Belt Parkway
A 51-year-old man was sentenced to seven to 21 years in prison for driving drunk and causing a head-on collision with a Lyft vehicle in 2018 that killed one of the Lyft vehicle’s occupants and left two others with severe injuries.
Sheepshead Bay resident Aleh Sheipak pleaded guilty in June to aggravated vehicular homicide and aggravated driving while intoxicated.
According to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, on July 12, 2018, at around 1:51 a.m., Sheipak was driving his 2011 Volkswagen Tiguan eastbound on the westbound lane of the Belt Parkway. The investigation found that Sheipak had driven over two miles in the wrong direction then collided head-on with a 2018 Honda Accord coming from John F. Kennedy Airport at exit three near the Verrazzano Bridge entrance ramp. The impact of the collision threw the Honda onto the guardrail in the center median.