Crime & Safety
Police ID 4 Who Died In A Head-On, FIery LI Crash Friday Night
One man was from Greenport, another was from Connecticut, and two people were from Brooklyn, police say.
EAST MARION, NY — Police have identified the four people who died in a fiery head-on crash in East Marion Friday night.
Heath Miller, 47, of Greenport, William Price, 55, of Wilton, CT, and Peter R. Smith, 80, and Patricia A. O'Neill, 66, both of Brooklyn, died in the crash, Southold Town police said.
Miller and Price were traveling west on Route 25 in a 2023 Tesla, Smith and O'Neill were heading east in a 2020 Ford Explorer, police said.
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Southold Town Police Chief Martin Flatley said because the Tesla is an electric car, it made extinguishing the blaze harder.
The crash took place just after 11:30 p.m. on New York State Route 25, police said.
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The crash is currently being investigated by the Southold police detectives, authorities said.
A Suffolk County Police emergency services unit as well as East Marion, Orient, and Southold Fire Departments responded, police said.
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