An off-duty FDNY EMT was killed late Tuesday when he slammed his ride into the wall of a Staten Island school — causing the car to flip and burst into flames, according to cops and an FDNY official.
Vladimir Sabatelli was driving his personal 2020 Dodge Challenger south on Manor Road in Sea View “at an apparent high rate of speed” around 11:40 p.m. and started swerving when he lost control, according to police and the official. He slammed into the wall of Susan E. Wagner High School at 1200 Manor Road, at which point the car overturned and went up in flames, cops said.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze and extracted the driver. Sabatelli was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sabatelli worked at Station 55 in the Bronx, and lived in Brooklyn, according to an FDNY source.