Suffolk County Police Fifth Squad detectives are investigating a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a Newsday truck driver in Blue Point. The driver was driving a 1999 International Newsday delivery truck westbound on Montauk Highway, near Homan Avenue, when his vehicle was struck by an eastbound 2005 Chevrolet Malibu, causing the truck to overturn. The driver of the Malibu fled, leaving the car at the scene.
The Newsday driver, 30 Franklin Road, Sound Beach, was transported to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center where he was admitted with serious, but non-life-threatening, injuries.
