Teen Killed In Long Island Expressway Crash

YAPHANK, NY – A teen was killed and three others were injured in a crash on the Long Island Expressway Monday afternoon, police said.

According to Suffolk Police, 22-year-old Franklin Eduardo Sajbin was driving a 2004 Jeep east on the LIE near Exit 66 in Yaphank when he struck a 2018 Alfa Romeo at about 2:20 p.m. The Jeep then hit the guardrail and flipped over the embankment and landed on the LIE service road, police said.

Two passengers in the Jeep, Katherine Sajbin, 18, who was sitting in the back seat, and her mother, Violeta Sajbin, 40, who was in the front passenger seat, were ejected from the Jeep. Katherine Sajbin was taken to Long Island Community Hospital in East Patchogue where she was pronounced dead.

Franklin Eduardo Sajbin, his aunt Violeta Sajbin, and a third passenger, Violeta Sajbin’s 12-year-old daughter Edith Sajbin, all of Riverhead, were taken to Stony Brook University Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The driver of the Alfa Romeo, a 55-year-old Old Bethpage man, was not injured.