NYPD: Driver decapitated after slamming into truck

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say a driver fleeing officers after a traffic stop was decapitated after he slammed into the back of a stopped flatbed truck.

Police said Thursday that 22-year-old Leroy Samuel was pronounced dead at the scene of Wednesday’s accident on a Brooklyn highway.

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