Crime & Safety
Police Host Special Patrol on Route 48
The patrol took place in the area of the fatal limo crash earlier this month.
The Southold Town Police worked with Suffolk County Police to host a special patrol on Sunday on Route 48 in Cutchogue following the fatal limo crash earlier this month.
A total of five buses and four limos were inspected for “things like licenses and log books,” Southold Police Chief Martin Flatley said.
Police issued three summons and four tickets during the patrol.
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Southold Police were given a federal grant that provides special patrols across Suffolk County to perform safety checks with limousines and buses.
On Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. four officers and a sergeant were sent out from the Suffolk County Police to assist two Southold officers to patrol the area, according to Flatley.
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Flatley says that traffic has been very heavy all summer along Route 48 and that police have taken a couple of steps to increase enforcement to prevent another accident similar to the fatal accident on July 19.
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