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Suffolk County Police - Headquarters
Thursday March 22nd, 2018 :: 07:29 p.m. EDT

Advisory

SCPD Third Squad detectives are investigating a two-vehicle crash that seriously injured a child in Brentwood today.

Suffolk County Police Third Squad detectives are investigating a two-vehicle crash that seriously injured a child in Brentwood today.
 
Melanie Beemer was operating a 2011 Jeep Patriot east on Express Drive South when she was struck by a 1999 Honda Odyssey traveling south on Washington Avenue by Wilber Lopez Gonzalez at approximately 3 p.m.  A six-year-old boy in the Jeep was transported to Cohen’s Children’s Hospital in New Hyde Park in serious condition. Beemer, 35 of Coram, and Gonzalez, 22 of Brentwood, were transported to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, with non-life-threatening injuries.
 
Both vehicles were impounded for safety checks. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Third Squad at 631-854-8532.
 

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Suffolk County Police - Headquarters
30 Yaphank Ave
Yaphank, NY 11980

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