December 1981. My cousin thru my father's 2nd youngest brother gets killed driving a newly purchased sports car into a pole exiting the Sunken Meadow Parkway enroute to East Northport days short of his 21st birthday.

While he was sober and not on drugs, it was an intoxicant and [his recklessness that borders upon stupidity] that killed him: Lust for speed and danger.

It was not his first serious accident speeding. This time the car he was driving met a post on an exit ramp with a posted speed limit of 20 mph. Suffolk County Police estimate he was going over 80 on an ice covered road. He died instantly, cut into halves by the dashboard.