Two Hurt in Brookhaven Two-Car Crash

Two people were injured in a two-car crash in Brookhaven on Monday night, and Suffolk County police said both injuries were not life-threatening. (patch.com) The crash happened at about 5:30 p.m. on April 13 at Montauk Highway and Old South Country Road, according to police. A 2020 Subaru sport utility vehicle was heading west on Montauk Highway when it collided with a 2023 Kia sedan turning left from Old South Country Road onto eastbound Montauk Highway. (patch.com) Police said the drivers were a 42-year-old man from Mastic Beach in the Subaru and a 70-year-old man from East Moriches in the Kia. Both were taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk in East Patchogue for treatment. (patch.com) The case is being handled by Suffolk County Police Seventh Squad detectives, who are investigating the cause of the collision. The department’s public site lists upcoming Seventh Precinct community meetings in Shirley, where residents can raise local public-safety concerns. (patch.com) (suffolkpd.org) Brookhaven and nearby Patchogue have seen a string of recent injury crashes this month. Patch reported that six people were hurt in separate Brookhaven Town crashes on April 15, and Suffolk police later sought information in a Medford two-car crash on April 17 that seriously injured a driver. (patch.com) (aol.com) For drivers, the Brookhaven crash fits a familiar pattern: a left-turning vehicle and a through-moving vehicle meeting in the same space at an intersection. New York’s 511 traffic system tracks crashes, lane closures and other incidents across the region as police continue to sort out what happened at Montauk Highway and Old South Country Road. (511ny.org) (patch.com) Anyone who may have seen the collision or has relevant information can expect the investigation to continue through Suffolk police. For now, both men survived the crash and were hospitalized with injuries police said were not life-threatening. (patch.com)