An Indian citizen was extradited Friday to face manslaughter charges in Nassau County, 20 years after a high-speed crash killed a Hicksville man and father of two.

Ganesh Shenoy, 54, had fled to India following the April 11, 2005, crash that killed Philip Mastropolo, 44, of Hicksville, at the intersection of Levittown Parkway and Old Country Road, Nassau County prosecutors said Monday.

Authorities estimated Shenoy was going between 75 and 84 mph at the time of the crash where the speed limit was posted at 40 mph. He was driving a 1993 Volvo when he ran a red light and T-boned Mastropolo’s 1993 Cadillac sedan, Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly said.

The force of the crash hurtled Mastropolo's car about 65 feet into the front of a box truck across the intersection waiting at a

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