DWI Charge For Long Island Woman After Crash Kills Grandmother: Police

MIDDLE ISLAND, NY — A Yaphank woman is facing driving while intoxicated charges after Suffolk police say she was involved in a crash that killed a 75-year-old woman in another vehicle in Middle Island.

Melissa Koprowski was driving a 2014 Dodge Durango eastbound on Middle Country Road, when she tried to make a left turn onto Wading River Hollow Road and crashed the Dodge into a 2022 Nissan Rogue that was traveling westbound, at around 8:40 p.m. on Friday, according to police.

A passenger in the Nissan, Esther Guy, of Coram, was taken to Long Island Community Hospital in East Patchogue where she was pronounced dead, police said.

The driver of the Nissan, a 33-year-old Coram woman, who is her daughter, was taken to the same hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, and her 22-month-old granddaughter, who was seated behind the driver at the time of the crash, was not injured, according to police.

Koprowski, 31, was also taken to the same hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

The vehicles were impounded for safety checks, according to police.

She was scheduled for arraignment at First District Court in Central Islip.

Her arraignment disposition was not available.

Anyone with information about the crash is asked to call the Major Case Squad at 631-852-6555.