Driver critically hurt after flipping Jeep in Blue Point
A 37-year-old man was critically injured after his vehicle struck a utility pole and overturned in Blue Point on Sunday, Suffolk police said.
At about 9 p.m., the man was eastbound in a 2021 Jeep Wrangler on Montauk Highway when the vehicle veered off the roadway, jumped a curb at Division Avenue and struck a utility pole, overturning multiple times, police said.
The man, whose name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital, police said.
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'I'm going to try to avoid it' A trip to the emergency room in a Long Island hospital now averages nearly 4 hours, data shows. NewsdayTV's Virginia Huie reports.
'I'm going to try to avoid it' A trip to the emergency room in a Long Island hospital now averages nearly 4 hours, data shows. NewsdayTV's Virginia Huie reports.
