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Driver, company sentenced in fatal crash

Sanitation truck driver Robert Moore leaves a Riverhead

Photo credit: Joseph D. Sullivan | Sanitation truck driver Robert Moore leaves a Riverhead courtroom after his arraignment. (March 11, 2010)

The criminal case against the sanitation company and driver whose truck crushed a woman on her way to work two years ago ended Wednesday, setting the stage for a higher-stakes civil case.

The brakes on Robert Moore's garbage truck failed on June 29, 2009, as he headed downhill on Pulaski Road in East Northport. His overloaded 2008 Mack truck overturned, crushing Deborah Shavalier, 56, in her...

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