Police: 1 dead in wrong-way crash on Sunken Meadow State Parkway
Police say a pickup truck was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes when it struck an SUV. The SUV driver died at the scene, according to police.
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Nov 22, 2020, 3:44 AM
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7h agoState police say one person died
following a wrong-way crash on the northbound side of the Sunken Meadow State
Parkway Friday.
State troopers say they got a call
for an incident around 7:30 p.m. Friday evening in Commack.
Police say a pickup truck was traveling
southbound in the northbound lanes when it struck an SUV near the Jericho
Turnpike exit. The SUV driver, 44-year-old Anthony Mariano, of Kings Park, died
at the scene.
The driver of the truck,
38-year-old Joseph Norris, of Babylon, was transported to a hospital with
serious injuries.
The Sunken Meadow Parkway was
closed northbound Friday night and traffic was diverted onto SM3 due to the
incident, state police said in a tweet.
Matt Fridrich says he
was a witness to the incident while driving on the Sunken Meadow Parkway and
had to dodge the wrong-way driver.
“Missed me by inches,” says Fridrich. “I’m lucky to be here.”
He stayed nearby and
watched as emergency crews responded to the wreckage.
“It smelled like burning liquids,
plastics. The sounds of all the metal crunching with the firefighters using the
jaws of life, everyone yelling at each other, the paramedics working on him.
Everyone was panicking, just the sight, the sounds, it's going to stick with me
for a while,” he says.
It's not clear why the pickup truck was on the wrong side of the road. No charges have been filed.
State police are asking for anyone
with information to call (631) 756-3300.
