Crash kills drivers Michael Colonna, Dora Salmeron, Old Westbury police chief says
A Sunday view of the collision location on Glen Cove Road at the Long Island Expressway overpass in Old Westbury. Credit: Newsday / James Carbone
A head-on collision on Glen Cove Road at the Long Island Expressway overpass in Old Westbury late Saturday night left both drivers dead, police said.
Michael Colonna, 35, of Roslyn, was driving northbound on Glen Cove Road in a Nissan Altima, according to police, while Dora Salmeron, 53, of Westbury, was driving south in a 2008 Nissan Pathfinder.
“Witnesses report that the Altima was being operated at a high rate of speed and crossed over into the southbound lanes of traffic striking the Pathfinder head-on,” according to a written statement by Old Westbury Village Chief of Police Stuart Cameron.
Police responded to the collision at 11:55 p.m., according to Cameron.
"Colonna was ejected from his vehicle and was transported by a Nassau County police ambulance to North Shore University Hospital,” Cameron wrote, where he was pronounced dead. Salmeron was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Cameron. He said there were no passengers in either vehicle.
More coverage: Long Island traffic crashes claimed 243 lives in 2022, 29% more than in 2019, Newsday has reported. The level was the highest since 2015, as dangerous driving increased post-COVID-19 and police traffic enforcement dropped, according to a Newsday analysis of crash and ticketing data and traffic experts.
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