Crime & Safety
1 Dead After Boat Crashes, Overturns In Great South Bay: Police
The boat crashed into a dock on an island in the Great South Bay, police say.
ISLIP, NY — A person is dead after a boat overturned and crashed near a house on a South Shore island on Thursday, Suffolk County Police said.
At about 7:35 a.m., a 47-year-old West Babylon called 911 to report he and another man were aboard a 30-foot Wellcraft center console boat when the boat ran aground, struck a house and overturned on West Fire Island.
The West Babylon man was taken to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, police said. The second man, whose name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
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It is not clear which man was operating the boat at the time of the crash.
Detectives are asking anyone with information on this crash to call the Third Squad at 631-854-8352.
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