A social media influencer known for drag-racing videos died in a car crash early Wednesday on a New York City expressway. Beadle, who amassed 246,000 Instagram followers and nearly 60,000 YouTube followers, had recently posted videos showing off the power of a BMW M240. A caption for the video read: “It’s just a bmw.”In a video posted this week on YouTube, what appears to be the same purple BMW is seen racing from multiple angles. In one nighttime video, a group of men is seen blocking traffic on a highway and slicking the roadway to prepare for the race. It was not clear if the BMW in the social media posts was the same vehicle involved in the deadly crash.

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Persons: Andre Beadle, ” Beadle, Beadle, “, ” Organizations: BMW, New York City Police Department, BMW M240, bmw, ”, YouTube Locations: New York City, Bronx, Nassau, Jamaica, Queens