Tractor-Trailer Overturns After Teen Driver Runs Red Light In Dix Hills: Police

DIX HILLS, NY — A Brentwood man was seriously injured Saturday morning when his tractor-trailer overturned after being hit by a Jeep Wrangler in Dix Hills, Suffolk police said.

According to Suffolk County police, Arturo Parada, 49, was driving a 2007 Kenworth tractor-trailer westbound on Express Drive North when it was struck by a 2022 Jeep Wrangler traveling north on Bagatelle Road at about 7:15 a.m.

The tractor-trailer overturned, and the cab struck trees and a utility pole, police said.

Parada was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital with serious injuries, police said.

The Jeep’s driver, a 16-year-old girl from Melville, was treated and released from Huntington Hospital, police said. She was issued summonses for driving out of class and failing to stop at a red light, police said.

Second Squad detectives are investigating. Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at 631-854-8252.