Three killed, including 11-year-old girl, in crash on Veterans Memorial Highway in Holbrook

Three people were killed, including an 11-year-old girl, in a crash involving a sport utility vehicle and a motorcycle Wednesday afternoon in Holbrook, Suffolk County police said.

The crash occurred near the intersection of Veterans Memorial Highway and Coates Avenue about 1:20 p.m. Veterans Highway reopened after being closed for several hours in both directions south of Long Island MacArthur Airport while police investigated. 

Police identified the drivers and the child killed in the crash Wednesday evening.

Emanuel Dandrea, 74, of Shoreham, was driving a 2020 Chevrolet Equinox making a left turn from westbound Veterans Memorial Highway onto southbound Coates Avenue and collided with a 2002 Honda motorcycle traveling east on Veterans Highway, police said.

Dandrea and the motorcyclist, Alaaeldien Elfaham, 23, of Deer Park, were both declared dead at the scene, police said. 

An 11-year-old girl, Alanna Lika, of Holbrook, also died of her injuries from the crash, and an unidentified 8-year-old girl in the Equinox, who had non-life-threatening injuries, was  taken by ambulance to Stony Brook University Hospital.

Police ask anyone with information to call Fifth Squad detectives at 631-854-8552.

With John Asbury and Craig Schneider

By John Valenti

john.valenti@newsday.com

John Valenti, a reporter at Newsday since 1981, has been honored nationally by the Associated Press and Society of the Silurians for investigative, enterprise and breaking news reporting, as well as column writing, and is the author of “Swee'pea,” a book about former New York playground basketball star Lloyd Daniels. Valenti is featured in the Emmy Award-winning ESPN 30-for-30 film “Big Shot.”