Cops: 1 killed, 2 injured after car flips in Patchogue

A Patchogue man was killed and two women were injured after his vehicle flipped in Patchogue early Sunday morning, Suffolk County police said.

Colin Garbett, 22, of Patchogue, was driving Colleen Malia, 22, of Oakdale, and Nicole Wilk, 20, of Bohemia, in a 2000 Chevrolet Malibu on the north service road of Sunrise Highway east of Waverly Avenue at 1:32 a.m. when the vehicle went out of control, hit a fence and grass median before it overturned onto the highway, police said.

Garbett, who was ejected, was pronounced dead at the scene by a physician assistant from the Suffolk County medical examiner's office.

Malia and Wilk were taken by the North Patchogue Fire Department Rescue Squad to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center in East Patchogue with injuries that were not considered life-threatening, police said.

The Malibu was impounded for safety checks, and police said an investigation continues. Anyone with information about the crash is asked to call the Fifth Squad at 631-854-8552.

In previous versions of this story, the name of the driver was incorrect.