LIE North Service Road in Melville reopened after morning crash
An overturned tractor trailer on the North Service Road and Bagatelle Road in on the border of Dix Hill and Melville on Saturday morning. Credit: Thomas Hengge
Police have reopened a section of the North Service Road of the LIE on the border of Melville and Dix Hills following a crash that shut down the road for around 8 hours Saturday and seriously injured a man, Suffolk County police said this afternoon.
The crash was reported to Suffolk police just before 7:15 a.m. Arturo Parada was driving a 2007 Kenworth tractor trailer westbound on Express Drive North when it was struck by a 2022 Jeep Wrangler traveling northbound on Bagatelle Road, according to a police news release.
Following the impact, the tractor trailer overturned, and the cab struck nearby trees and a utility pole, police said. Parada, 49, of Brentwood, was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital with serious injuries, police said.
The driver of the Jeep, a 16-year-old female from Melville, was treated and released from Huntington Hospital, police said. She was issued summonses for driving out of class and failing to stop at a red light, police said.
Police closed the roughly 1,400-foot stretch of road, as well as the nearby Exit 50 offramp, to conduct their accident investigation. The roadway reopened around 3 p.m., a Suffolk police spokeswoman said.
A PSEG pole also was cracked during the crash, the spokeswoman said. Suffolk police notified PSEG of the damage to the pole.
The crash affected electricity service for about 75 customers, for whom power was restored at 12:45 p.m. Saturday, a PSEG spokesperson told Newsday via email.
Sam Kmack covers the Town of Islip for Newsday. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California and previously worked as a city watchdog reporter in the Phoenix metro area, as well as an investigative journalist at the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.
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