Long Island Expressway

What should have been a new father’s routine drive home ended in tragedy along the Long Island Expressway, but police are still trying to figure out why it happened.

News 4’s Greg Cergol reports.

Cops are investigating a road rage confrontation on the Long Island Expressway that ended with a man at the locked door of a woman’s stopped BMW — and a passenger cut in the throat when he found another way inside, police say. Suffolk County police say the woman was driving a 2007 BMW west on the highway, between exits 63…

A 33-year-old Long Island man was arrested Sunday morning after crashing his car into a highway patrol officer’s vehicle while driving under the influence, authorities said. Police said Kushal Dilawri was driving the Long Island Expressway around 4:30 a.m. when he crashed into the Suffolk County Police Highway Patrol car. The officer of the patrol car had pulled over...

A 28-year-old Queens man was arrested and charged in the death of Carlos Santiago, a father of three from Brooklyn. News 4’s Melissa Colorado reports.

A caravan of tow truck drivers waited outside of the Queens County Criminal Courthouse Saturday night during the arraignment of the alleged drunk driver accused of killing one of their own. Carlos Santiago, 47, died that morning in a chain-reaction crash while helping out a motorist on the Long Island Expressway. “He was a father, he was a great co-worker,”…

An overnight crash on the Long Island Expressway killed a tow truck driver around 3:30 a.m. Saturday, according to officials.

A brief joyride in a fire department vehicle ended in the arrest of a New Hampshire man who allegedly jumped behind the wheel after crashing his own car on Long Island. The unusual heist occurred on the Long Island Expressway Saturday, around 6:45 p.m., when police said the 33-year-old crashed into several other vehicles in Yaphank. Police and fire crews…