An elderly man was killed and his wife critically injured today when the husband drove their Toyota Camry the wrong way onto the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn and hit another car, authorities said.
The 84-year-old driver and his 82-year-old passenger entered the parkway at the Erskine Street exit ramp in East New York at around 2 p.m. and started heading westbound in the eastbound lanes, cops said.
Soon after, they collided with a black Ford sedan that was going eastbound, according to authorities.
The elderly driver was declared dead on arrival at Brookdale Hospital. His wife is in stable condition at Jamaica Hospital.
The driver of the other vehicle, a 55-year-old man, was in stable condition at Jamaica Hospital.
The driver’s family declined to comment beyond saying, “Everything’s going to be OK.”