Richard Threlkeld, a former correspondent for CBS News, was killed today in a car crash on Long Island.
Threlkeld, 74, who lived with his wife in East Hampton, was driving his Mini Cooper north on the Cross Highway in Amagansett when he collided with a propane tanker that was traveling east on the Montauk Highway, police said.
His car then went off the road and hit a fence. He was taken to Southampton Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The driver of the tanker, Earl Freyberger, was uninjured in the accident.
East Hampton Police are investigating the accident.
Threlkeld was a CBS News correspondent for 25 years.