30-Year-Old Charged With DWI After Fatal Coram Crash

Police have arrested a man for driving while intoxicated after he was involved in a crash that killed a person on Long Island.

The area of the fatal crash.
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Kathy Reakes

11/07/2022 9:00 a.m.

It happened in Coram around 11:50 a.m., Sunday, Nov. 6 on Middle Country Road.

According to Suffolk County Police, Derrick Kindle, age 30, of Middle Island, was driving a 2008 Nissan Sentra eastbound on Middle Country Road, east of Country Club Drive, when he struck Gerald Smith, age 68, of Farmingville.

Smith was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Officers at the scene determined Kindle was driving drunk and placed him in custody, police added.

Kindle was charged with driving while intoxicated.

He was held overnight and is scheduled to be arraigned in Central Islip on Monday, Nov. 7.

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