Judgment unanimously affirmed.
Defendant's motion to suppress statements was properly denied. The police officer's questioning of defendant at the scene of the automobile accident about what had happened, who owned the car, whether he had been drinking and whether he had been driving the vehicle was clearly investigatory, not custodial, interrogation (see, People v Palmiere,
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