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An off-duty cop sank her boyfriend’s $70,000 SUV into Jamaica Bay on April 22. Photo by Todd Maisel
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BY TODD MAISEL
An off-duty cop lost control
of her boyfriend’s SUV
in Marine Park on April 22
and sunk the vehicle into Jamaica
Bay.
The 39-year-old cop was
testing out her boyfriend’s
Cadillac Escalade at the
southern end of Floyd Bennett
Field, a former Air Force
base, when she hit the accelerator
instead of the brake
at around 8:45 pm, police
reported. The $70,000 car
bounded through the weeds,
smashed into a rotten wooden
barrier, and dove into the bay
more than 50 feet away from
the paved roadway.
Both the driver and her
boyfriend escaped the car unharmed,
and took the crash
in stride.
“I didn’t mind going for a
swim, it was pretty cold, but
not this way,” said the boyfriend,
who did not want to be
identifi ed.
Police helicopters, boats,
and fi refi ghters rushed to the
scene within minutes of the
crash and took the couple to
Coney Island Hospital for observation.
On Thursday, divers were
on the scene marking the
car’s location so that police or
the Army Corps of Engineers
could lift the car out of the
water. The boyfriend stood
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