CENTRAL ISLIP, NY — A Long Island Rail Road train crashed into a vehicle on the tracks in Central Islip, MTA told Patch.
MTA police said that a westbound LIRR Ronkonkoma Branch train crashed into a car containing its driver around 4:20 a.m. at the Lowell Ave grade crossing, just east of Central Islip, near Lowell and East Suffolk avenues.
The driver, Jonathan Hernandez-Lima, 27, of Central Islip, was arrested, hospitalized, and charged with first-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree criminal mischief, leaving the scene with an injury, leaving the scene property damage, and driving while intoxicated, the MTA said.
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Ronkonkoma Branch service was impacted while crews and emergency personnel responded to the scene, and was fully restored by 7:04 a.m. on Saturday morning, the MTA said.
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