Police: Driver killed in wrong-way crash

One driver was killed and another was seriously injured in a wrong-way head-on crash late Thursday night on the Long Island Expressway service road in Melville, police said.

Suffolk County police said Marie Louis, 56, of North Amityville, was driving a 2005 Honda Civic westbound in the eastbound lanes of Express Drive South when she collided head-on with an eastbound 2021 Mercedes-Benz GLC driven by a 61-year-old woman from North Baldwin. The collision occurred at about 11:15 p.m. at Maxess Road, police said.

Police said Louis was transported to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, where she was pronounced dead.

The other driver also was taken to NUMC with serious injuries, police said.

Both vehicles were impounded for further investigation.

Police are asking anyone with information to call Second Squad detectives at 631-854-8252.

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.”