Cops: Two hurt in William Floyd Parkway crash
Two people were injured in a one-car crash early Friday on the William Floyd Parkway on the Yaphank-Upton border, police said.
The crash occurred on the northbound roadway, north of the Long Island Expressway, at 1:16 a.m., Suffolk police said.
The driver, identified only as a woman from Riverhead, lost control of the vehicle and struck a tree. There was no criminality involved.
Police said the woman was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital, where it was determined she had non-life-threatening injuries. A male passenger was transported via Ridge Fire Department Ambulance to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center in East Patchogue, also with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.
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