Levittown Man Fatally Hit by Car

By Timothy Bolger Posted on May 25, 2015

A 79-year-old man was fatally struck by a car driven by an 85-year-old while he was crossing Hempstead Turnpike in his hometown of Levittown over the weekend.

Nassau County police said Frank Ilardi was walking northbound across Route 24 at the corner of Grassy Lane when he was hit by an eastbound vehicle shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday.

The victim was taken to Nassau University Medical Center, where he died five hours later.

Homicide Squad detectives inspected the vehicle and did not find any criminality on behalf of the 85-year-old driver.

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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.