Police Officer Drives Couple To Their Wedding After Crash

SHIRLEY, NY — It's a happy ending fit for a holiday movie: A police officer drove a couple and their children to their wedding ceremony Saturday after they were involved in a Shirley crash, authorities said.

A Suffolk County Police officer drove the couple after their vehicle became disabled in the crash, which took place at Plymouth Place and Montauk Highway in Shirley Saturday at 1:15 p.m., police said.

.Joseph DeMichele, 36, was driving a 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee westbound on Montauk Highway, near Plymouth Place, when a vehicle made a U-turn in front of the Jeep and the vehicles collided; no one was injured in the crash, police said.

DeMichele, 36, who was in the car with his fiancée, Feliece Terwilliger, 36, and their two children, Jayden Corriche, 10, and Gianna DeMichele, 5, were traveling to the couple’s wedding ceremony at Town Hall in the Village of Lake Grove, police said.

Seventh Precinct Police Officer Cody Matthews, who responded to the crash, drove the couple to the wedding in his police vehicle; Officer Matthews was invited to be an official witness to the marriage and signed the marriage certificate, police said.

Patch photos courtesy SCPD.