Archive for April, 2009

Bethpage Pkwy, 4.15.2009

April 16, 2009

About 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15, 2009, the driver of a car northbound on the Bethpage Parkway, shortly before Hempstead Turnpike, swerved into the southbound lane and collided with a southbound car.  The northbound driver lost her life.  The newsday.com story is here.  Note that this parkway is quite unusual, as it has only two lanes, with a painted line as a divider. A driver unfamiliar with this route might consider it dangerous, but this is the Bethpage Parkway’s first fatality since this blog was begun in early 2007. It was a clear, dry afternoon, and the offending driver was not facing the sun.

Meadowbrook Pkwy, 4.14.2009

April 14, 2009

For an unknown reason, a pedestrian walked along the southbound Meadowbrook Parkway in Carle Place during the first hour of Tuesday, April 14, 2009.  He was killed by a car that did not stop.  The brief Newsday.com  story is here.