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John Asbury

Suffolk County police are investigating two separate pedestrian deaths that occurred 15 minutes apart Friday evening in Selden and Shirley. 
The first accident happened at 6:35 p.m. when a man was running across Middle Country Road near Adirondack Drive in Selden, police said. 
According to law enforcement, the man was first hit by a 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee, which knocked him to the middle of the road, where he was struck again by a 2019 Nissan Pathfinder. 
The man, identified as Ireneusz Matuk, 66, of Selden, was pronounced dead at the scene by the Suffolk County Medical Examiner’s Office, police said. 
Anyone with information on that crash is being asked to call the Sixth Squad at 631-854-8652. 
The second crash happened at 6:50 p.m. on William Floyd Parkway in Shirley. A pedestrian was hit by a 2015 Jeep Wrangler heading south on the parkway near Roberts Road, police said Friday. 
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. On Wednesday, police identified him as Jeffrey Pope, 49, of Shirley. 
The driver of the Wrangler, Eutichio Triburgo, 70, also of Shirley, was not injured, police said. 
Police are asking anyone with information on the Shirley crash to call the Seventh Squad at 631-852-8752.

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2 pedestrians killed within 15 minutes in separate Suffolk crashes, police say

Police: 2 killed within 15 minutes in separate crashes

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Matthew Chayes

An alleged drunken driver struck and killed a man crossing a street just after midnight Saturday in North Bay Shore, then fled the scene, but was arrested soon afterwards, according to the Suffolk County Police Department. 
The pedestrian, Dany Ibarra, 38, of Bay Shore, was crossing at about 12:20 a.m. in front of 1724 Fifth Ave., when Darwin Contreras, 30, of Central Islip, was heading northbound on the road and struck him with a 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee, the police department wrote in a news release. 
Contreras was charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and driving while intoxicated, according to the release, which said he is to be arraigned Sunday at First District Court in Central Islip. 
The release did not say how the police tracked down Contreras, why he is alleged to have been the driver or the evidence that he was intoxicated. Nor did the release say how fast Contreras was going. 
In an email Saturday afternoon, the police department press office declined to answer these questions. 
Ibarra was the second pedestrian to be killed in a crash in Suffolk County in a span of about four hours. 
At 7:58 p.m. Friday, a pickup truck driver struck and killed a 33-year-old man at the intersection of Howells Road and Manatuck Boulevard in Bay Shore, the police department wrote in an earlier release. 
More people died in Suffolk County last year from automobile crashes than anywhere else in New York State, <a href="https://www.newsday.com/long-island/transportation/suffolk-crashes-fatalities-nassau-1.50371084">a Newsday report published last month</a> found, with 113 people killed.

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Driver charged with DWI in fatal hit-and-run in North Bay Shore, Suffolk police say

Police: Driver charged with DWI in fatal hit-and-run

John Valenti

Police are investigating two accidents that killed pedestrians, one Monday night in East Meadow and the other early Tuesday in Bay Shore. 
Nassau County Police said the fatal accident in East Meadow occurred when a 2000 Honda, traveling westbound on Hempstead Turnpike, struck a male pedestrian near the intersection of Merrick Avenue just before 10 p.m. The pedestrian suffered "severe head trauma" and died at the scene, police said. 
In the second accident, Suffolk County Police said a man was killed when he was struck by a minivan on the Sunrise Highway service road. Police said the victim, identified as Andrew Taylor, 28, of Bay Shore, was in the roadway when he was struck by a westbound 2013 Dodge Grand Caravan about 500 feet west of Atlantic Avenue at about 4:15 a.m. 
Taylor was transported to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore, where police said he was pronounced. 
Neither driver was injured in the accidents and police said both remained at the scene and have not been charged. 
Nassau Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the East Meadow accident, while police in Suffolk are asking anyone with information about the Suffolk crash to call Third Squad detectives at 631-854-8352.

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