Former NBA player Jayson Williams fractured his neck after smashing his SUV into a tree in an early morning East Side crash.
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Williams, who has been charged with drunken driving, was driving his black Mercedes SUV along the FDR Drive, and exited at the northbound E. 20th street exit. He hit a 40-foot oak tree at East 18th street and Avenue C at 3:15 a.m., police said.
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Witnesses said he was driving the car but slid into the passenger seat after the crash before police arrived. He told police someone else had been driving and refused to take a Breathalyzer test.
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Jayson Williams fractured his neck after smashing his SUV.
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Jayson Williams’ family members remove the contents of his car from 10th NYPD precint where officers stored the crashed family Mercedes SUV. Jayson Williams fractured his neck after smashing his SUV into a tree in an early morning East Side crash.
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