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Police said the man was a passenger in a large box truck traveling westbound on Sound Avenue near the Baiting Hollow hill when it left the roadway, struck a utility pole and a large tree, and overturned just before 10 a.m.. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Riverhead Police charged Corrilyn Rose Meyer, 28, with Leaving the Scene of a Motor Vehicle Accident that caused a death in connection with a crash that killed a 23-year-old Middle Island man on Rt 58 Dec. 30.

A 23-year-old Middle Island man was struck and killed while crossing Route 58 just west of Osborn Avenue last night, Riverhead Town Police said in a press release this morning.

An elderly Southold man was killed in an accident on County Road 94 in Riverside this morning. The driver of the vehicle, which overturned and crashed into the median, was injured.

Amy Wesolowski, the operator of a vehicle in a Flanders Road crash that killed her 4-year-old daughter in January, has pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and aggravated driving while ability impaired by drugs.

Thanks to an "overwhelming" community response to their request yesterday, Southampton Town Police said they were able to identify the man struck and killed in an accident in Flanders Sunday night.

Update: Police have identified the person who died in a single-car crash on Osborn Avenue early this morning as Derek J. Cruz, 27, of Riverhead.

The Riverhead man who pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in June in connection with a crash on Flanders Road Dec. 17 has been sentenced to 2 3⁄4 to 8 1⁄4 years in prison, Suffolk District Attorney Raymond Tierney announced today.

Police said the SUV struck a motorcycle at about 5:45 a.m. and left the scene. Responding officers found a man lying in the roadway at County Road 104 near Pine Street, according to an updated report issued by police this afternoon.

The Flanders woman involved in a crash on Flanders Road Jan. 13 that claimed the life of her 4-year-old daughter has been indicted on vehicular manslaughter and aggravated DWI charges.