Early on Friday morning there was a fatal head on collision involving a wrong way driver.
According to state police, the accident happened shortly before 4 in the morning in the southbound lanes of the Sprain Brook Parkway when reports of a driver travelling the wrong way were received. Efren Moreano, aged 20, of Yonkers was driving a 2013 Honda Civic northbound in the southbound lanes and he collided with 46 year old Paul E. Duncan in a 2011 Honda Pilot. Duncan was an off duty NYPD detective and he was killed in the crash. Moreano was placed in a medically induced coma at Westchester Medical Center and is currently in a stable condition.
According to police, alcohol and marijuana may have been factors in the crash, but the investigation is ongoing and they are still looking for witnesses.
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