Brentwood crash: Police ID man killed, driver charged with DWI in collision with garbage truck
The East Brentwood Fire Department, the Central Islip-Hauppauge Volunteer Ambulance Corps. and Exchange Ambulance of the Islips responded to a fatal crash on Suffolk Avenue in Brentwood early Friday morning. Credit: Paul Mazza
A Brentwood man has been charged with driving while intoxicated after an early-morning collision with a garbage truck in Brentwood on Friday left one of his passengers dead, Suffolk police said.
Miguel Portillo was driving a 2006 Infiniti east on Suffolk Avenue with two other people in the car, police said, when he attempted to make a left turn onto Fulton Street and the car was struck by a westbound 2014 Kenwood garbage truck.
The car's front-seat passenger, Ronald Landaverde, 30, of Brentwood, was taken to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Portillo, 30, was taken to South Shore University Hospital with serious injuries and was charged with driving while intoxicated, police said. He will be arraigned at a later date.
The car's rear-seat passenger, Jose Sorto Portillo, 43, also of Brentwood, was taken to the same hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
The driver of the garbage truck was not hurt in the crash, which happened at about 4:30 a.m., police said.
Both vehicles were impounded for safety checks, police said. Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call police at 631-852-6555 or Suffolk County Crime Stoppers at 800-220-TIPS.
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