Crime & Safety
Teen Killed In Crash Into Tree
An 18-year-old was killed and a 17-year-old was injured in the crash Monday night, Suffolk Police say.
ROCKY POINT, NY – A 18-year-old man was killed in a single-car crash in Rocky Point Monday night, police said.
According to Suffolk Police, Robert Permenter was driving a 1995 BMW sedan east on North Country Road, approaching the intersection of Route 25A, when the car veered off the roadway and struck a tree around 10 p.m.
Permenter, of Patchogue, was transported to Stony Brook University Hospital where he was pronounced dead. A 17-year-old female passenger in the BMW was transported to the same hospital for treatment of minor injuries.
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