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Posted at 6:59 a.m., Monday, March 3, 2008

Olympic sprinter from Guyana killed in N.Y. car crash

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Roger Gill, a sprinter who competed for Guyana at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, was killed in a Brooklyn car crash. He was 35.

The car in which Gill was riding hit an unoccupied box truck early Sunday. He died at a hospital, police said.

Warren Davies, the 35-year-old driver, died at the scene and investigators believe he might have been speeding.