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Cops: Teen hit by woman driving drunk with son

Joseph Marino, 15, was standing with his bicycle

Photo credit: Handout | Joseph Marino, 15, was standing with his bicycle at Ponquogue Avenue and Argonne Road East in Hampton Bays talking to friends when he was killed by a drunken driver.

A drunken Mattituck driver with her 6-year-old son in tow crashed into a 15-year-old boy on a Hampton Bays street, police said, leaving the teen clinging to life.

The accident happened during the same week that lawmakers called for harsher penalties for those who drive drunk with children.

Joseph Marino was standing with his bicycle at Ponquogue Avenue and Argonne Road East at about...

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