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State: LIE drivers had ample warning

One person was killed and at least 32

One person was killed and at least 32 injured -- two of them seriously -- in a fiery crash late Wednesday afternoon involving more than three dozen vehicles on the eastbound Long Island Expressway in Yaphank, police and emergency officials said. Videojournalists: Ed Betz and James Carbone (Dec. 19, 2012) (December 19, 2012 8:16 PM)

Motorists had ample warning to slow down for a road project on the Long Island Expressway ahead of where a tractor trailer triggered a fiery pileup Wednesday, a state transportation official said Thursday.

The afternoon crash near Exit 68 killed one driver, Christa Zepf, 68, of Blue Point. Robert Murphy, 57, of Lloyd Harbor, suffered a head injury and was in critical condition at Brookhaven...

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