Dangerous Roads

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney and Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly joined Queens DA Melinda Katzand Bronx DA Darcel Clark to call on the state Legislature to pass the “Deadly Driving Bill” at […]

A Bayshore man pleaded guilty to committing aggravated vehicular homicide that happened in March of 2023.   Intoxicated and speeding Carlos Orellana Mata, 36 of East Northport had been driving a 2015 Infiniti QX60 SUV […]

A Queens man pleaded guilty to murdering the driver of a vehicle he collided with in Baldwin in April 2023. Patrick Destine, 27, pleaded guilty on May 7 before Judge Howard Sturim to second-degree murder […]

Suffolk County Police arrested a male teenager for driving a stolen vehicle while impaired by drugs after he attempted to flee the scene of a fatal motor vehicle crash in Centereach. A 16-year-old male was […]

One pedestrian was killed and another was injured in two separate motor vehicle crashes. On May 4 at approximately 9:15 p.m., an unidentified woman was crossing Sunrise Highway from north to south, between New Highway […]

Drove at a High Rate of Speed, Causing Five-Vehicle Crash and Death of a Motorist A garbage truck driver from Queens has been indicted for criminally negligent homicide after he was allegedly driving at a […]

Previously Published in The Messenger By Matt Meduri Residents of the Hauppauge, Lake Ronkonkoma, Nesconset, and Ronkonkoma areas – primarily – know all too well the inconveniences and dangers of County Route 93 (CR-93), better […]

Suffolk County police arrested a man for drunk driving following a crash that resulted in serious injuries to a female motorcyclist in Bay Shore. On April 28 at approximately 8:20 .m., John Hernandez-Hernandez was driving […]

Suffolk County Police First Squad detectives are investigating a crash that killed a motorcyclist in East Farmingdale. James Pust was operating a 2022 Harley-Davidson motorcycle southbound on New Highway when he lost control of the […]

A Syosset man pleaded guilty for his role in a drunken crash in Laurel Hollow that killed a husband and wife as he drove at a rate of almost 100 miles per hour. Sotirios Spanos, […]