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POLICE REPORTER DIES IN CAR ACCIDENT
NEW YORK (AP) Veteran New York City police reporter Patrick Doyle died Thursday after suffering a cardiac arrest while driving his car. He was 62.
Doyle, dubbed "inspector Doyle" by co-workers, was a police reporter at the daily news for 54 years, covering more than 20,000 homicides, according to the newspaper.
He retired from the news in August 1983 and five months later began working for WNBC-TV as a stringer at police headquarters.
He had been a member of the New York Press Club since 1954.
Doyle was driving southbound on the FDR Drive at 10:50 A.M. when his car mounted a sidewalk, then a service road where it continued for about 205 feet before crashing into a transit authority bus parked at the intersection of East 120th street and Paladine avenue, police said.
Doyle was pronounced dead at the scene, said officer Vincent Jones, a police spokesman.
The bus driver, Michael Hayes, 46, who was alone on the bus, was not hurt, he said.
Lisa Eichenberger, a spokeswoman for WNBC-TV, said that based on early reports of the accident, Doyle "suffered a cardiac arrest while at the wheel of his car."
Police said the exact cause of death would be determined by the medical examiner.
Doyle, born in New York City, lived in Haworth, N.J.. He is survived by his wife Frances and five children.
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