Police seek driver in fatal Brentwood hit-run

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Third Squad detectives are looking for the driver of a dark-colored sedan who fled a fatal hit-and-run accident in Brentwood earlier this month, police said.

A man was walking across Suffolk Avenue east of Eastern Avenue  when he was hit by a 1989 Nissan driven by an 18 year old,  of Bay Shore.

A second vehicle swerved to avoid hitting the victim, then stopped. The man was then hit by a third vehicle -- a dark-colored sedan that left the scene, police said.

Police said the victim was injured though apparently alive after he was hit by the Nissan, but he was killed when the sedan hit him.

The man was taken by Brentwood Legion Ambulance to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, where he was pronounced dead.

The sedan that fled the scene was driven by a woman and the New York license plate on the car was a newer one with blue lettering on an orange background, police said.

Woman, 80, killed by car in Herricks

An 80-year-old woman walking on Shelter Rock Road in Herricks was hit and killed by a car, Nassau County police said.

The woman was at the intersection of Shelter Rock Road and Moore Street  when she was hit by a 1999 Toyota driven by a 71-year-old man, police said.

The woman was taken to Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, where she was pronounced dead, police said.

60-year-old pedestrian fatally struck in Coram

Officials say a pedestrian was struck and killed while trying to cross Middle County Road in Coram.

Police say the unidentified 60-year-old man was walking across Route 25 near Homestead Drive  when the incident happened. The man later died at a nearby hospital.

Man struck crossing Hempstead Turnpike

A man crossing the riskiest road on Long Island for pedestrians was struck by a sport utility vehicle and seriously injured, police said.

The 72-year-old victim suffered a fractured right leg and serious head trauma as he was struck on westbound Hempstead Turnpike in Elmont, Nassau County police said. Police said the victim, whose identity was not released, was transported to a hospital in serious condition.

A year-long investigation this week reported that the 16-mile stretch of Hempstead Turnpike through Nassau County is the riskiest stretch of road for pedestrians on the Island, with 8.21 annual fatalities -- and, scores more serious pedestrian accidents -- per million vehicle miles traveled. Thirty-two people were killed -- and, at least 427 were injured -- in 457 pedestrian accidents between 2005 and 2010, the investigation found. The investigation also found that Elmont, Franklin Square and Hempstead Village have intersections with the highest number of pedestrian hits.

Police said the accident this week occurred near the intersection of Sterling Road. The man hit there, police said, was attempting to cross Hempstead Turnpike -- and was in the right lane when he was struck by a 2004 Toyota Highlander driven by a 68-year-old man. The driver stopped and called police.

Two killed on LIRR tracks in Copiague

An eastbound Long Island Rail Road train struck and killed two young women just west of the Copiague station, officials said.

The women were not authorized to be on the elevated tracks, which are on an embankment, said a LIRR spokesman.  They were hit by the 5:19 p.m. train out of Penn Station, he said, but there were no passengers on it at the time.

A second assistant chief for the Copiague Fire department described the victims as "two young girls in their late teens, early twenties." 

The 12-car train had finished its run at Wantagh and was heading toward Babylon when the accident happened. t's not clear what barriers, if any, were in place to prevent people from going up the embankment. The place where the train struck the women was on an elevated track a couple hundred feet west of the station platform and not near any pedestrian crossings.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) police are investigating and trying to find out the identities of the women.

Both the Suffolk County Medical Examiner and the Copiague Fire Department were at the scene.

Pedestrian struck and killed in Brentwood

Police are looking for a dark sedan involved in a hit and run that killed a pedestrian in Brentwood, Suffolk police said.

The pedestrian was crossing Suffolk Avenue east of Eastern Avenue when he was hit by a 1989 Nissan driven by an 18 year old from Bay Shore. A second vehicle swerved and avoided hitting the victim, then stopped. The man was then hit by a third vehicle -- a four-door, dark colored sedan that left the scene.

Det. Sgt. Jeffrey Walker said it appeared that the victim was injured but alive after he was hit by the Nissan, but was killed when the dark sedan hit him.

The man was taken by Brentwood Legion Ambulance to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, where he was pronounced dead. Police are continuing an investigation. Walker said the entire incident was captured on a security video, which police are reviewing.

Boy, 3, hit by car critical but stable

A 3-year-old boy accidentally hit by a van in front of a Uniondale home is in critical but stable condition at Nassau University Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The boy was hit in the 800 block of Park Place, Nassau First Squad detectives said.

Police said a neighbor accidentally hit the boy, who was bleeding from the head from a wound that required stitches.

There were no charges and no criminality was suspected, according to police.