Truck Carrying Propane Tanks Goes Up In Flames After Overturning On Long Island Expressway
Video from the scene shows it was fully engulfed by fire and heavy smoke.
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Video from the scene shows it was fully engulfed by fire and heavy smoke.
Police said the man was walking on the shoulder of the westbound lanes when he was hit around 5:30 a.m.
Police said they pulled Bryan Ramirez over for changing lanes unsafely, then discovered a 2-year-old and a 6-year-old in the car.
The driver allegedly veered to the right into the center lane and struck a motorcyclist.
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It started at 5:20 a.m. at a gas station on Sunrise Highway in Islip Terrace, police said.
It was my way and the highway for a newborn New Yorker, who's now named after the expressway where she was born.
It happened around 8:30 a.m. in the eastbound lanes near the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.
Smoke and flames didn't stop two men from risking their own lives to save another man during rush hour Wednesday night on the Long Island Expressway.
The crash happened on the eastbound side of the LIE just after midnight near Exit 49 where according to investigators, two cars were initially involved in a fender bender.
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An off-duty New York City police officer is seriously injured after a car crash on the shoulder of the Long Island Expressway.
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It happened just before midnight on the eastbound side of the LIE near exit 44 involving a pickup truck and a sedan.
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