Lakeview Crash Leaves Street Sweeper Driver Dead

By Timothy Bolger Posted on May 9, 2014

A street sweeper driver was killed when his truck flipped after crashing into another commercial vehicle in Lakeview on Friday morning.

Nassau County police said Nathaniel Burns Jr., of Brooklyn, was driving an Isuzu street sweeper southbound on Peninsula Boulevard when his vehicle collided with an International Harvester truck shortly before 7 a.m.

The victim was taken to the Nassau County Medical Examiner’s office. The other driver was taken to Mercy Hospital for treatment of minor injuries.

Homicide Squad detectives impounded both vehicles and are continuing the investigation, but do not suspect any criminality, police said.

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Timothy Bolger

Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.