Powerhouse Road, Roslyn Hts., 9.28.08

Regrettably, on Sunday afternoon, September 28, 2008, a man lost his life while driving west on Powerhouse Road, Roslyn Heights.  According to newsday.com here, he struck a utility pole west of Linden Street.  This is between Roslyn Road and Willis Avenue.

Southern State Pkwy, exit 14, 9.25.08

This afternoon we came upon the ashes of two lines of police flares westbound at Exit 16 of the Southern State Parkway.  Newsday.com here reports that before 3 a.m. near Exit 14, North Valley Stream, a car had zig-zagged, hit the center divider, flipped, and caught fire.  One person was rescued by a brave man, one sadly perished in the automobile.

Sheridan Blvd, Inwood, 9.21.08

Sad to relate, a motorcyclist died about noon on Sunday, September 21, 2008, the result of a collision with an automobile at the intersection of Grand Central Place and Sheridan Blvd., Inwood, in the Town of Hempstead.  The newsday.com article is here.  Grand Central Place is one-way westbound.  According to the article the car struck by the motorcycle was making a left turn onto southbound Sheridan Blvd.

Sunrise Hwy, Seaford, 9.21.08

According to newsday.com here, a bicyclist was struck and killed by a car on eastbound Sunrise Highway west of the NY 135 overpass.   Apprently he had moved from the right-hand lane to the left-most of the three eastbound lanes before being struck.  Four remains of yellow tape to the right and left of the westbound lanes, that is along the right shoulder and the metal median divider, seems to mark the general location of the collision.  A sad loss.

Stewart Ave., Bethpage, 9.18.08

About 4:34 p.m. on Thursday, September 18, 2008, a cyclist on Stewart Avenue rode in front of a westbound train in Bethpage.  Sad to say, the cyclist lost his life.  The newsday.com story is here.

Hempstead Tpk, Elmont, 9.7.2008

Sad to tell, a motorcyclist lost his life in Elmont when, traveling east, he crashed into a parked car, a planter, and a street sign.  The link to newsday.com is here.  The time was about 9:30 on Sunday night, September 7, 2008.  Newsday did not identify the nearest intersection or give an address.

Wantagh Pkwy., 9.5.2008

A brief incomplete item was posted on newsday.com here stating that a person died in a crash on the Wantagh Parkway Saturday morning, September 6, 2008. (Corrected to late September 5, see below.)  Nothing appeared in print. Newsday has been cutting back on its reporting.  Two weeks later, this writer observed new memorial decorations on a tree about half a mile south of the Southern State Parkway, southbound, in the center median.  Maybe this was the location, but it is only a surmise.

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Oddly, a year later more detail has arrived.  A hard-to-find post at newsday.com (Try here) explains that a jury on October 22 or 23, 2009, convicted the driver Michael Bauer, 53,  of six counts, including second degree manslaughter and two of driving while intoxicated.  He was northbound about 11:30 p.m. on September 5, 2009, lost control at about 85 m.p.h., skidded almost 400 feet and crashed into the median somewhere near the footbridge crossing the Wantagh Parkway from Forest Lake School to Wantagh High School (Beltagh Avenue).  Sentencing is scheduled for December 4. 2009.  He caused the death of his girlfriend.