Crime & Safety

ICYMI: Man Killed After Being Struck By Commercial Truck

Check out this story reported last week on Smithtown Patch.

In case you missed it, here's a story that appeared last week in Smithtown Patch:

NESCONSET, NY - A pedestrian was killed after he was hit by a commercial truck at the parking lot of a Nesconset business Tuesday morning, according to Suffolk Police.

Daniel Curcio was driving a commercial truck in reverse in the parking lot of Handy Pantry Shopping Center on 279 Smithtown Boulevard when the vehicle struck a man walking through the parking lot at 9:30 a.m., police said.

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The pedestrian, 68-year-old Albert Geerders, of Ronkonkoma, was pronounced dead at the scene by a physician assistant from the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner.

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