The driver in a single-car crash on the exit ramp at Exit 73 of the Long Island Expressway last night was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital with serious injuries, according to Riverhead Town Police.
Police said a 2002 Mercury Mountaineer operated by John Parry III, 26, of Patchogue, collided with the shoulder of the roadway and overturned several times before coming to rest in the median between the eastbound exit ramp of Exit 72 and Exit 73.
Riverhead Volunteer Ambulance Corps responded to the scene to treat the victim and provide transport to a helicopter landing zone in the nearby Office Max parking lot. A Suffolk County Police Med-Evac helicopter unit transported Parry to Stony Brook. It was later determined that Parry’s injuries were not life-threatening, police said.
Riverhead police are investigating the cause of the accident.
The eastbound lanes of the Long Island Expressway were closed at Exit 72 while police detectives investigated the scene. The roadway was reopened at about 11:30 p.m., police said.
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