Victim ID'd in tire-changing fatality
A man struck and fatally injured by a motorist on Sunrise Highway last Sunday morning was identified as a 32-year-old Islip man, the Suffolk County sheriff's office said Friday.
Matthew Hyams had been driving east on the service road about 4:17 a.m. when his vehicle got a flat tire, officials said. He pulled over east of Heckscher Parkway in East Islip and got out of his car, officials said.
He was struck by a 2009 Hyundai sedan driven by a 47-year-old man, officials said.
The Suffolk County Police Department, which looks into traffic fatalities, said Friday that the investigation was continuing.
'I've never seen fire sitting on the water' Three Newsday photographers talk to NewsdayTV's Macy Egeland about covering the tragic crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996.
'I've never seen fire sitting on the water' Three Newsday photographers talk to NewsdayTV's Macy Egeland about covering the tragic crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996.
