Oceanside crash leaves pedestrian critically injured in hit by driver of Porsche SUV, Nassau police say

The scene Friday at Lincoln and Woods avenues where a pedestrian... — The scene Friday at Lincoln and Woods avenues where a pedestrian was struck an seriously injured Thursday night in Oceanside. Credit: Newsday/Howard Schnapp

By Matthew Chayesmatthew.chayes@newsday.com chayesmatthewUpdated July 4, 2025

A Porsche driver struck and critically injured an 80-year-old man walking Thursday evening in Oceanside, according to the Nassau County Police Department.

The man had been walking westbound on Lower Lincoln Avenue around 9:47 p.m. when the driver, a 29-year-old woman traveling southbound, struck him with a 2019 Porsche SUV, the department wrote in a news release. The man was hospitalized and is in critical condition, the release said.

The case is being handled by the police homicide squad, whose investigation is unfinished.

The release didn't say how the crash happened, where the pedestrian was in relationship to traffic, how fast the Porsche was being driven, whether the driver was ticketed or name anyone involved.

On Long Island last year, 1,330 pedestrians were struck and injured or killed in crashes, according to preliminary statistics from the University at Albany-based Institute for Traffic Safety Management & Research — 834 in Nassau and 496 in Suffolk. Of those 153 were seriously injured: 103 in Nassau and 50 in Suffolk; 58 were killed on the Island: 23 in Nassau and 35 in Suffolk.

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