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2 Dead After BMW Flips Off Grand Central Parkway in Corona, Officials Say

By  Katie Honan and Aidan Gardiner | June 13, 2016 10:57am | Updated on June 14, 2016 7:44am

 Two people were killed in a crash that flipped a car off of the 111th Street exit to the Grand Central Parkway Monday morning, officials said.
Two people were killed in a crash that flipped a car off of the 111th Street exit to the Grand Central Parkway Monday morning, officials said.
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CORONA — Two 39-year-old men died after their speeding BMW was launched over the guardrail of a Grand Central Parkway exit, landing upside-down in a tree-lined embankment Monday morning, officials said.

Bronx resident Carlos Diaz, 39, was behind the wheel of the white car about 8:45 a.m. when he lost control of his speeding car on a curve of the 111th Street exit, police and FDNY officials said. 

He hit a metal rail, and the car was launched into the air, landing on the driver's side before settling upside down in a tree, according to the NYPD.

It's not clear how fast Diaz was going. 

The damaged guardrail along the 111th Street exit on the Grand Central. (DNAinfo/Katie Honan)

The men were pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The passenger in the car was not immediately identified.