Hit and run drivers

Recently, the Suffolk County Police Fifth Squad detectives investigated a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a pedestrian. Police responded to a 911 call from a passing motorist reporting that a pedestrian was lying on the ground on North Ocean Avenue near Vehslage Street in Patchogue on December 11 at 6:07 p.m. When police arrived, they determined that a man had been struck by an unidentified vehicle that fled in an unknown direction. The injured man was transported to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center in East Patchogue and was listed in critical condition.