Suffolk County Police on Monday, February 10 arrested a man for driving while intoxicated following a tractor trailer crash on the westbound Long Island Expressway in Dix Hills.
Timothy Murray was driving a 2016 Freightliner tractor that was pulling a trailer westbound on the Long Island Expressway, when the vehicle left the roadway at the right shoulder, crashed into the guardrail, and came to a stop east of the Exit 50 off ramp, at 7:48 p.m. Several hundred feet of guardrail and two streetlamps came down in the crash. Another vehicle struck debris in the roadway and became disabled.
Two lanes of the westbound Long Island Expressway were closed for over six hours to remove the vehicles and clear the roadway, including clean-up of motor oil and approximately 50 gallons of spilled diesel fuel. Suffolk County Motor Carrier Safety Section responded and completed a post-crash inspection and NYDEC Hazmat Spill Response was on scene for the diesel fuel spill.
Murray, 64, of 157 Hawthorne St., Mastic, was charged with Driving While Intoxicated. He is being held overnight in the Third Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on February 11.
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