Crime & Safety
Motorcyclist Killed In Long Island Crash
BREAKING: It was the second fatal motorcycle crash in about 18 hours on the island.
HOLBROOK, NY – A 49-year-old man was killed in a motorcycle crash in Suffolk early Wednesday.
According to Suffolk Police, John F. Greene was riding a 1995 Harley Davidson motorcycle south on Veterans Memorial Highway, near the Sunrise Highway overpass, in Holbrook when his left the roadway and struck a metal barricade at about 12:20 a.m.
Greene, of Brookhaven, was pronounced dead at the scene by a physician assistant from the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner.
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It was the second fatal motorcycle crash in about 18 hours in Suffolk. A 25-year-old man was killed in a crash on the Long Island Expressway Tuesday morning.
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