25-Year-Old Woman Fatally Struck by Car While Walking Her Dog

EAST ISLIP, NY - A 25-year-old woman was struck and killed by a car while she was out walking her dog Tuesday morning in East Islip, police said.

According to police, Skye Brunetti was walking her dog on the sidewalk on Union Boulevard, west of Harwood Avenue, near her home when she was hit by a 2007 Chrysler sedan that was heading west on Union Boulevard at about 9:10 a.m.

The car also hit a utility pole, severing it, police said. Brunetti was pronounced dead at the scene. Her dog was also killed.

The driver of the car, 50-year-old Barbara Cottone, was taken to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore with minor injuries, police said. No criminal charges have been filed.

Brunetti, a single mother, had just put her son on his school bus and was heading back to her Union Boulevard home at the time of the accident, according to an online fundraiser set up for Brunetti's family.