Crime & Safety
Police ID Man Fatally Struck By Vehicle In Blue Point
A Centereach man was hit and killed by a vehicle in Blue Point on Tuesday while he was working on his truck, Suffolk County police say.
BLUE POINT, NY —A man was hit and killed by a car in Blue Point on Tuesday, police told Patch on Tuesday.
Marta Ordonez-Castillo was driving a 2009 Hyundai Elantra southbound on Kennedy Avenue near Pine Street when the vehicle struck Oscar Lopez-Machado who was working on a 2006 Dodge Ram parked on the northbound side of the road, police said.
Lopez-Machado, 44, of Centereach, was pronounced dead at the scene by a physician assistant from the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner, police said.
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According to police, Ordonez Castillo, 54, of East Patchogue, was taken to Long Island Community Hospital in Patchogue for a evaluation.
The vehicles were impounded for a safety check.
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Anyone with information may call the Fifth Squad at 631-854-8552.
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