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Dad fatally struck on LIE while carrying son, 2

The driver of a car that slammed into a concrete barrier on the Long Island Expressway Tuesday night was then killed as he tried to cross the highway, carrying his 2-year-old son, the Suffolk County sheriff said.

Miraculously, the toddler survived being thrown about 20 feet from the arms of his father, after Ronald Dorsa, 27, of Coram, was hit by a minivan near Holtsville. The toddler suffered...

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