A 25-year-old man who fatally hit a safety flag worker while speeding through a construction zone on the Nassau Expressway on Friday had previously had his license suspended 7 times, according to prosecutors.

Prosecutors said Daveanand Budhai was speeding through a 25 mph construction zone on the Exit 1N ramp, going at least 60 mph at around 7:30 a.m., when he swerved left, drove into multiple traffic drums that marked the zone, and then struck Isabel Alvarez, who was working there as a traffic control flagger holding a “STOP/SLOW” sign. The 44-year-old woman had been thrown more than 168 feet to the shoulder of the roadway and died from her injuries, according to a criminal complaint.

In statements made to police following the crash, Budhai admitted he was speeding, in a rush to get som

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