Police ID man killed, drivers injured in 2-vehicle crash in Hauppauge
A man was killed and four others injured in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Route 347 and Brooksite Drive in Hauppauge on Monday. Credit: Joseph Sperber
A man was killed and four other people were injured in Hauppauge early Monday morning in a crash involving two vehicles, according to the Suffolk County Police Department.
The man, Brendan Haverty, 26, of Riverhead, was a passenger in one of the vehicles, according to the department press office.
The crash happened around 1:35 a.m. as Daneris Garcia Marquez was driving a 2011 Ford Econoline west on Route 347 when she hit a 2019 Toyota Camry going north on Brooksite Drive that was being driven by Abhishek Mukherjee, the release said. Haverty was in the Toyota.
Footage from the crash scene showed a severely damaged vehicle on the side of the road and an overturned van in the right lane with its roof removed.
Mukherjee, 42, of Hicksville, and Marquez, 19, of Wyandanch, were brought to Stony Brook University Hospital to treat serious injuries. Two men, ages 18 and 25, who were passengers in the van, were also brought to Stony Brook for treatment of injuries that were not life-threatening, the release said.
Mukherjee's wife, Supi, said she didn't know much about the crash or how her husband is doing. She is waiting for answers at the hospital.
"We are just waiting," she said. "I have no clue. I just know he's in the hospital."
The release did not say how fast the drivers were traveling, who had the right of way or other details relating to the cause.
The press office said no one has been criminally charged, ticketed or issued a summons in connection with the crash.
Statewide, there were 371,520 crashes in 2021, in which 146,720 people were injured or killed, including 1,105 killed, 11,188 seriously hurt, and 18,494 moderately hurt. Drivers represented 634 of those killed, 6,738 of those seriously injured, and 9,965 of those moderately hurt, according to the Albany-based Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research.
There were 38,882 crashes in Suffolk that year, 135 of which involved fatalities and 10,167 with injuries. In Nassau, there were 36,639, of which 73 were fatal and 9,497 with injuries.
In Nassau, there were 76 people killed in crashes, of whom 32 were drivers, 11 were passengers, 31 were pedestrians and two were bicyclists. In Suffolk, there were 146 people killed, of whom 81 were drivers, 18 were passengers, 42 were pedestrians and five were bicyclists.
Matthew Chayes, a Newsday reporter since 2007, covers New York City.
