Woman Killed While Helping Drivers In Suffolk Car Crash: Police

ISLANDIA, NY — A woman was killed while helping drivers who were involved in an earlier crash Monday morning in Islandia.

A vehicle was rear-ended on Suffolk Avenue near Casement Avenue around 5:40 a.m., police said. Jennifer Burgess, 36, of East Setauket, was not involved in the crash and stopped to help the drivers. That's when two cars hit one of the cars involved in the fender-bender, police said, causing Burgess to step into the westbound lanes of Suffolk Avenue and get hit by a car.

Burgess was declared dead at Southside Hospital in Bay Shore. The 59-year-old St. James man who was driving the car that hit her was not hurt. His car was impounded for a safety check.

Anyone with information should call the police at 631-854-8352.