Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's car struck another vehicle, killing its two occupants. We agree with the Supreme Court that the inculpatory statements made by the defendant at the hospital were admissible at trial since they were not the product of custodial interrogation but were elicited in the course of the police department's accident investigation (see, People v Phinney,
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