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Sunrise Highway, NY (Route 27)

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Fatal Hit-Run Crash: 15-Year-Old From Copiague ID'd As Victim Fatal Hit-Run Crash: 15-Year-Old From Copiague ID'd As Victim
Fatal Hit-Run Crash: 15-Year-Old From Copiague ID'd As Victim A suspect is at large after a teenage boy was killed in a hit-and-run crash overnight at a busy Long Island intersection. It happened around 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2 in Copiague. The teen was walking at the crosswalk on eastbound Sunrise Highway (Route 27) at 35th Street when he was struck by a 1999 Subaru driven by a 65-year-old Lindenhurst woman, Suffolk County Police said. The boy was lying in the roadway and was struck by another driver, who fled. Both the boy and the driver of the Subaru were transported to Good Samaritan University Hospital in West Islip.  The victim,…

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by Joe Lombardi
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Woman Struck, Killed Crossing Busy Long Island Highway Woman Struck, Killed Crossing Busy Long Island Highway
Woman Struck, Killed Crossing Busy Long Island Highway A woman was struck and killed while crossing a busy roadway on Long Island. The incident took place in Bay Shore just after midnight between 5th Avenue and Brentwood Road on Sunrise Highway (Route 27). Suffolk County Police detectives said Jennifer Bolgehn, age 37, of Glendale, Queens, was walking across Sunrise Highway when she was struck by an eastbound 2009 Nissan Rogue. Bolgehn was pronounced dead at the scene by a physician assistant from the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner.  The driver of the Nissan, a 54-year-old Shirley man, was not injured, …

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by Kathy Reakes