Crime & Safety

Feeling Safe on Area Roads

Share your thoughts on the Southern State DWI arrest.

It's an all to familiar incident that occurred at an unfamiliar time.

Monday's arrest of a Wantagh man is the type of police story that gives you chills.  State police say the driver of a Ford that rear ended a car and then struck a pole Monday morning  on the Southern State Parkway in North Massapequa.

He was also on drugs at the time, according to cops.

It's the type of incident you usually expect late at night or before sunrise, but this incident occurred at 8:39 a.m. according to cops.

We want to know if you take the same precautions in daylight that you do at night.  Are you surprised by this accident?  

Let us know in the comment section below.


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