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Drunk Driver Crashes Into Cruiser, Causing Hours-Long LIE Closure
A chain-reaction crash involving an allegedly drunk driver caused the hours-long closure of a stretch of the Long Island Expressway.
It happened around 4:45 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 27 in Hauppauge.
Tracy Smith, age 30, of Huntington Station, was driving a 2021 Volkswagen on the westbound side of the expressway, a half-mile west of exit 55, when his vehicle veered off the road and struck a Highway Patrol Bureau cruiser, with its lights activated, that was parked on the shoulder behind another vehicle, Suffolk County Police said.
The Volkswagen then struck a 2008 Ford, which was in the main t…
