Motorcyclist killed on LIE; driver seriously hurt in separate crash
Nassau police investigate the scene of a crash where a motorcyclist was killed Saturday on the LIE in Plainview. Credit: Jim Staubitser
One man was killed Saturday night and another seriously injured in separate crashes on Long Island roadways, police said.
A 30-year-old motorcyclist was eastbound on the Long Island Expressway near exit 46 in Plainview at about 9:19 p.m., when he struck the rear of a 2023 International tractor trailer, Nassau County police said in a news release. The motorcyclist, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead at the scene by a Nassau County Police Department medic, police said.
The driver of the truck, a 57-year-old male, was not injured and remained at the scene.
The crash occurred less than three hours after Suffolk police responded to a crash in which a Port Jefferson Station man was seriously injured when his vehicle collided with an ambulance in Miller Place.
Matthew Goff, 41, was making a left turn onto Parkside Avenue from the eastbound lanes of Route 25A at about 6:30 p.m. when his 2008 Subaru Forester collided with the westbound ambulance, police said. The lights and sirens were activated on the ambulance at the time of the crash, according to a news release.
Goff was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital for treatment of serious injuries, according to police.
Two ambulance employees were treated for non-life-threatening injuries at St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson, where the patient in the ambulance was also taken.
Investigations are ongoing in both crashes, police said.
Grant Parpan covers Suffolk County courts and federal courts for Newsday. A Long Island native, he joined Newsday in 2022.
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