A pickup truck with two passengers veered off Yaphank-<a href="/topics/Middle_Island%2C_NY">Middle Island</a> Road in Yaphank early Sunday morning and crashed into two trees, <a href="/topics/Suffolk_County%2C_NY">Suffolk</a> Police said. 
The accident happened at 3:58 a.m. in front of 419 Yaphank-<a href="/topics/Middle_Island%2C_NY">Middle Island</a> Road, cops said. 
Driver Ronald Wisniski, 32, of <a href="/topics/Ridge%2C_NY">Ridge</a> was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say he was not wearing a seatbelt. 
The passenger in the 2005 <a href="/topics/Nissan">Nissan</a>, George Hengstenberg, 21, was treated for minor injures and released Sunday morning.

A pickup truck with two passengers veered off Yaphank-Middle Island Road in Yaphank early Sunday morning and crashed into two trees, Suffolk Police said. The accident happened at 3:58 a.m. in front of 419 Yaphank-Middle Island Road, cops said. Driver Ronald Wisniski, 32, of Ridge was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say he was not wearing a seatbelt. The passenger in the 2005 Nissan, George Hengstenberg, 21, was treated for minor injures and released Sunday morning.

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