1 Dead, Driver Charged With Manslaughter After Weekend Crash: Police

HEMPSTEAD, NY — A Baldwin man has been charged with several felonies in connection with a deadly weekend crash in Hempstead, according to state police.

Haynes Harris, 40, is charged with second-degree manslaughter, second-degree vehicular manslaughter, second-degree assault, second-degree reckless endangerment, reckless driving and driving while intoxicated, police said.

The crash, which occurred just before 9 p.m. Saturday on westbound Southern State Parkway between Exits 17 and 16, resulted in the death of Harris’s passenger, 51-year-old Adrian Hall of New York City, according to police.

Harris was driving a 2006 BMW M3 west on the parkway when he rear-ended a 2022 Chevrolet Equinox, causing both vehicles to leave the road on the right shoulder, police said. The BMW struck a guide rail, overturned and continued into a utility box, while the Chevy continued forward, hitting the guide rail, according to police.

Hall was taken to NYU Langone hospital in critical condition and later died of his injuries, police said, while both Harris and the driver of the Chevrolet were brought to Langone for treatment of injuries that were not life-threatening.

Harris was set to be arraigned Sunday at Nassau County First District Court, according to police. Anyone with information about the crash is asked to call police at 631-756-3300.