Construction Worker Hit By Box Truck On Long Island Dies

CORAM, NY – A construction worker has died from injuries suffered when she was struck by a box truck on Long Island last week, Suffolk Police said.

Gloria Taylor, 55, had been hospitalized at Stony Brook University Hospital since the crash on Aug. 14. Police did not say when she died.

Taylor, of Islip, was holding a sign to slow or stop traffic on the east side of northbound Route 112, which was under construction, when a 2000 Isuzu box truck traveling northbound drifted to the right near Pauls Path and struck Taylor.

The driver of the Isuzu, Dominick Sconzo, 19, of Selden, was not injured. A safety check was conducted on the truck, which is owned by Casa Piazza in Port Jefferson Station. No criminal charges have been filed.