Dangerous Roads

The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department will be stepping up its DWI patrols leading up to Super Bowl Sunday on February 9, one of the highest-risk holidays of the year for alcohol related accidents.  Deputy sheriffs […]

Suffolk County officers are investigating a motor vehicle crash that killed a bicyclist last night in Miller Place. Marc Wilke, 51, was riding a bicycle south on Route 25A, east of Hunter Avenue, when he […]

State police and local law enforcement agencies will participate in the national enforcement initiative on impaired driving in the week leading up to this year’s Super Bowl. The campaign — which runs from February 3 through […]

Suffolk County Police Motor Carrier Safety Section officers, along with personnel from the Suffolk  County Department of Weights and Measures and the New York State Environmental Conservation  Police today conducted checks of home heating fuel […]

Suffolk County police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the driver of a car that hit and killed a Lake Grove woman over the weekend. As previously reported in Long Island Life & […]

New York State police (NYSP) charged a West Babylon man with drunk driving and reckless endangerment after he allegedly drove the wrong way on the Southern State Parkway. On February 2 at approximately 4:44 a.m., […]

Suffolk County Police Major Case Unit detectives are investigating a hit-and-run that killed a pedestrian in Lake Grove this morning. Sampada Aduulla, 24, of Lake Grove, was crossing Nesconset Highway, near Hallock Road, when she […]

A West Hempstead man was sentenced to up to 21 years in prison for a December 2021 crash on Peninsula Boulevard in Woodmere that killed a teenage passenger and injured four others. On December 11, […]

Half-Brother Killed; Defendant Had Driving Privileges Suspended at Time of Crash A Valley Stream man pleaded guilty to manslaughter and other charges for a 2022 drunk-driving crash on the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway that killed his […]

Three men were injured in a two-car crash in Yaphank. On January 28, a 2020 Audi Q5 was traveling east on Longwood Road when the car hit a 2019 Ram pickup truck that was traveling […]