August 9, 2012

Man Dies in Single-Car Crash


Suffolk County Police Fifth Squad detectives are investigating a single-car crash that killed a Florida man. 

The victim  was driving a 2010 Volkswagen westbound on Sunrise Highway, approximately ½ mile east of Waverly Avenue, in Patchogue when his vehicle veered off the roadway and struck a guardrail on the right shoulder. The vehicle then crossed all three lanes of traffic and struck the guardrail in the median.

The driver, of 2384 SW Caballero St., Port St. Lucie, Florida, was transported to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center in East Patchogue by North Patchogue Ambulance where he was pronounced dead