A New Hyde Park man has been charged with careless driving in the death of a man in Naples, Fla., after hitting him with his car Sunday night.
Nimesh Patel, 32, of New Hyde Park was “momentarily distracted” by an electronic device while driving his BMW M5 when he hit 82-year-old Naples resident Stephen Elaesser, Jr., who was driving a Suzuki Bergman scooter, the Fort Meyers News-Press reported.
The crash knocked Elaesser off his scooter and onto the road. He was then run over by 62-year-old Naples resident Janet Go’s Lexus ES 350. Elaesser suffered fatal injuries and eventually died.