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LIRR: Dental records to help confirm train crash victims' IDs

The car struck by an out-of-service Long Island

The car struck by an out-of-service Long Island Rail Road passenger train in Brentwood went around lowered crossing gates moments before the fiery crash Tuesday morning that killed the car's two occupants, a police spokesman said. Videojournalists: Jim Staubitser and News12 Long Island (Jan. 22, 2013) (January 22, 2013 5:41 PM)

Metropolitan Transportation Authority police are awaiting autopsy results and a check of dental records to positively identify the two occupants of a car who died in a fiery crash with a Long Island Rail Road train in Brentwood, an LIRR spokesman said Wednesday.

Late Wednesday night, a man who answered the Commack home of Blanca Maldonado said she was one of the people killed in the crash.

He...

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