Officials: Sleeping driver killed cop on LIE
Photo credit: File / Patrick E. McCarthy | Nassau County Highway Patrol Officer Michael J. Califano, 44, was struck and killed in a crash during a traffic stop Feb. 4, 2011, on the Long Island Expressway. Califano is seen in a file photo taken Nov. 5, 2009, as he guards an office holding Election Day paper ballots from the Nassau county executive's race.
John Kaley, 25, of New Britain, Conn., was 
Nassau police discuss traffic stop tragedy
Crash kills cop
Police Officer Michael Califano remembered
LI car accidents
Fallen Nassau County police officers
In Nassau's first line-of-duty police death since 1993, a highway patrolman died early Saturday after a traffic stop on the Long Island Expressway in which a trucker who dozed off slammed into the officer's stopped patrol car, authorities said.
Friday night's three-vehicle wreck crushed Officer Michael J. Califano, 44, of Wantagh and trapped him inside his Ford Crown Victoria. Rescuers worked...
