Single-vehicle crash on the LIE in Yaphank kills driver, police say
A motorist was killed Saturday night in a single-vehicle crash on the Long Island Expressway in Yaphank, Suffolk police said.
The unidentified male driver was eastbound on the LIE near Exit 67 at 10:13 p.m. when he crashed, police said.
He was pronounced dead at Long Island Community Hospital in East Patchogue, police said.
A photo taken at the scene of the crash shows a damaged minivan next to a guardrail on the expressway.
No one else was in the vehicle at the time of the crash and the investigation is continuing, according to police.
Vera Chinese joined Newsday in 2017 after working as an editor for the East End lifestyle publication northforker and a general assignment reporter for the New York Daily News.
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