A Long Island teen was killed after the BMW he was driving crashed off the roadway and into a tree overnight, police said.
It happened on Monday, Dec.23 at approximately 10 p.m. in Rocky Point.
Robert Permenter, 18, of Patchogue, was driving the 1995 BMW sedan eastbound on North Country Road, approaching the intersection of Route 25A, when the vehicle veered off the roadway and struck a tree, Suffolk County Police said.
Permenter was transported to Stony Brook University Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A 17-year-old female passenger in the BMW was transported to the same hospital for treatment of minor injuries.
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