NASHUA, N.H. (AP) – A 22-year-old Marine corporal who returned from Iraq just four months ago died Saturday in a car crash.

Friends and family say Neil Regonini was heading to his father’s home in Hudson after a night out with friends. Police said Regonini lost control of his car and went over a snow bank, rolling down the steep incline several times.

“He had so much going for him,” said his father Mark Regonini. “He could have done anything he wanted to. It’s a shame.”

Police say Neil Regonini was speeding and had been drinking before the crash.

Mark Regonini said he does not believe his son had more than a few beers, but said his son may have been distracted because he was talking on his cell phone.

“He loved his car and loved driving fast. He was looking for a CD and talking on the phone – that’s what killed him,” his father said.

Regonini said his son had talked about having symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder the previous day.

“He said he was suffering from three of the four post-traumatic symptoms from combat,” Regonini said. “The only thing he wasn’t was suicidal.”

He said he does not believe his son’s state of mind played a role in the crash, he said.

Neil Regonini had finished four years of duty with the Marines in November. He spent roughly one year in Iraq and had provided security to the U.S. embassy in Liberia before that.

He was considering a career with the FBI or state police, his father said. He also would have spent the next two years as a Marine reservist, completing the terms of his enlistment.

Neil was a Tyngsborough, Mass., native, and had lived with one of his brothers in South Berwick, Maine, since returning. The two brother were working with their father as tile installers.

He leaves his wife, Angela, four brothers, two sisters and two half-siblings, according to his father.

“There’s a lot of disbelief,” Neil Regonini’s brother Duncan said. “He just got back.”