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Selden Woman Killed After Compact SUV Overturns In Yaphank, Infant Daughter Avoids Injury Selden Woman Killed After Compact SUV Overturns In Yaphank, Infant Daughter Avoids Injury
Selden Woman Killed After Compact SUV Overturns In Yaphank, Infant Daughter Avoids Injury Police are investigating a fatal overnight crash that left a Long Island woman dead. It happened around 1:20 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 22 in Yaphank. The woman was driving a 2003 Chevrolet Trailblazer, with her 1-year-old daughter as a passenger, on the southbound William Floyd exit ramp to Express Drive North when she lost control of the vehicle, crashed through a chain link fence, overturned, and came to a stop in the woods off the roadway, Suffolk County Police said.  The woman, identified as Fay Vella, age 41, of Selden, was pronounced dead at the scene by a physician assis…

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by Joe Lombardi
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Hampton Bays Man Killed In Two-Vehicle Crash Near Intersection In Yaphank Hampton Bays Man Killed In Two-Vehicle Crash Near Intersection In Yaphank
Hampton Bays Man Killed In Two-Vehicle Crash Near Intersection In Yaphank A 32-year-old Long Island man was killed after allegedly running a red light and hitting a Mercedes-Benz. The crash took place in Yaphank around 5 p.m. on Monday, May 30, on Express Drive North, said the Suffolk County Police. According to investigators, David Acevedo, of Hamptons Bay, was riding a 2013 Suzuki motorcycle northbound on Sills Road when he traveled through a red light and struck the 2020 Mercedes SUV traveling westbound. Acevedo was pronounced dead at the scene by a physician assistant from the Office of the Suffolk County medical examiner's office, police said. The driver o…

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by Kathy Reakes