Long Island Expressway

An explosion caused by a tanker truck carrying 300 propane tanks forced a New York City expressway to shut down around midnight Tuesday. Police said black ice on westbound lanes of the Long Island Expressway at Woodhaven Boulevard in Queens may have caused the semi-truck to roll over after the truck was cut off by another driver. The FDNY said…

NBC New York’s Katherine Creag reports.

State police say a trooper was seriously injured when he was struck by a vehicle while assisting a disabled motorist on an overpass leading to the Long Island Expressway near Brentwood.

Five people were injured, one seriously, after a chain-reaction crash on the Long Island Expressway Tuesday morning, police say.

Police in the New York City suburbs say they’ve arrested a fake cop who tried to pull over real detectives. Nassau County police said Valiery Portlock sounded a horn and flashed emergency lights Friday morning as he an attempt to pull over a van in Hicksville, Long Island. The unmarked van turned out to be occupied by detectives from the...

Police say a motorcyclist is dead after a drunken driver struck him on the Long Island Expressway in Queens

A driver hit and killed a jogger on Long Island on Sunday afternoon, then fled the scene, police said.

All westbound lanes on highway were shut down near Exit 17 during busy rush hour traffic following the multi-vehicle accident where the man’s vehicle was overturned.

A 52-year-old man died Thursday after he had a medical incident while driving on the westbound lanes of Long Island Expressway in Queens.

A woman who was drunk driving crashed her car with her three daughters inside, police said.

A Long Island man tried to drive solo in a HOV lane by buckling a fully-dressed dummy into his passenger seat, police said.

A Canadian driver twice tried to strike patrol cars as he was fleeing arrest on Long Island, police said.

A 66-year-old bicyclist was struck and killed by a minivan that fled the scene, police said.

A 66-year-old bicyclist was struck and killed on Sunday by a minivan that fled the scene, police said. Greg Cergol reports.

“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s character “is not being written out of the show,” 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Entertainment said in a statement released Wednesday, days after Chicago police said they want to re-interview the actor and singer about an alleged attack he reported last month.

At least seven people were hurt, most of them children, in a multi-vehicle crash involving a school bus and two other vehicles on the Long Island Expressway Wednesday, according to fire officials and police.

A 31-year-old father who got out of his vehicle after a crash on the Long Island Expressway was struck and killed by another car, police said.

A father and husband got out of his car on the Long Island Expressway after a crash, then was struck and killed by another car, police say. Wale Aliyu reports.

A Long Island woman has pleaded not guilty to a charge that she was driving while intoxicated during an eight-car chain-reaction crash on the Long Island Expressway.

Police say eight vehicles got tangled in a chain-reaction crash on the Long Island Expressway, leaving six people with minor injuries, a minivan stuck under an oil tanker and the minivan’s driver under arrest.