Farmingdale teen charged with DWI
Suffolk County police and other emergency personnel respond to a crash that seriously injured one teen male and left other individuals injured early Saturday morning on Route 110 in East Farmingdale. Matthew Ross, 17, of Farmingdale, was charged with driving while intoxicated in the accident. (Oct. 8, 2011) Credit: Paul Mazza
A Farmingdale teen was charged with drunken driving Saturday after an early morning crash on Route 110 in East Farmingdale that caused several injuries, police said.
Suffolk County police said Matthew Ross, 17, was driving a 1994 GMC Suburban south on 110 at 1:45 a.m. when he lost control of the vehicle and rear-ended a 2008 Mercury driven by Tatiana Jennings, 23, of Wyandanch.
Jennings had stopped her car to make a U-turn at Allen Boulevard, police said.
A passenger in Ross' vehicle, Javior Rivera, 16, of Farmingdale, was seriously injured in the wreck, according to police. He was taken to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow.
Ross and another passenger in his car, Onofrio Cottone, 19, of Farmingdale, were taken to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip for non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Two other passengers in the Suburban were taken to NUMC and treated for minor injuries, as were Jennings and her passenger, Joy Robinson, 21, of Far Rockaway, police said.
Police said 110 was closed in both directions after the crash. The road reopened about 9 a.m.
No arraignment date for Ross has been set.
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