Traffic on Route 58 was shut down in both directions between Ostrander Avenue and Oliver Street for about four hours Friday night after a two-vehicle accident involving a motorcycle.
The accident occurred just before 7 p.m. in the area of the Restaurant Depot shopping center.
The operator of the motorcycle was airlifted to Stony Brook by a Suffolk Police Medevac helicopter. Riverhead Ambulance Corps treated the operator at the scene and transported him to the Riverhead Fire Department training facility on Northville Turnpike, where firefighters secured a landing zone for the police helicopter.
Riverhead Police announced the road closure in a press release at 7:20 p.m. and at 11:30 p.m. announced the road had been reopened.
Police did not immediately make any further information available.
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