Miller Place driver hits tree after sliding on ice, police say

A Miller Place woman was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after she lost control of her car on ice and hit a tree Friday morning, Suffolk County police said.

The single-car crash occurred at 7:55 a.m. on southbound Miller Place-Yaphank Road in Miller Place.

Police said the driver, Melissa Westerlund, 34, was in her 2009 Toyota when “the vehicle slid on ice,” striking the tree.

Westerlund was taken by Miller Place Fire Department Ambulance to Stony Brook University Hospital, where she was being treated for undisclosed injuries.

There were no charges.

By John Valenti

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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.”