Man Dead After Crashing Into Wall On Robert Moses Causeway: PD

WEST ISLILP, NY — A man is dead after crashing into a concrete wall in West Islip Sunday night, Suffolk County police said.

Joseph J. Pehowich, Jr. was driving a 2014 Honda sedan eastbound on the Sunrise Service Road at about 8:40 p.m. police said, when the car left the roadway and drove into the grass median between the service road and express portion of Sunrise Highway. The car crashed into the concrete wall that supports the Robert Moses Causeway, police said.

Pehowich, 37, of Lindenhurst, was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center where he was pronounced dead, police said.

The car was impounded for a safety check. Anyone with information on this crash is asked to call the Third Squad at 631-854-8352.