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Friday, June 28, 2024

A devastating incident unfolded in Deer Park on Long Island, New York, when a 2020 Chevy Traverse driven by 64-year-old Steven Schwally crashed into Hawaii Nail & Spa just after 4:30 pm on a Friday afternoon. Eyewitnesses described a harrowing scene as Schwally allegedly sped through a Kohl's parking lot on Commack Road before abruptly crossing Grand Boulevard and smashing into the nail salon's front entrance.

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Sunday, June 29, 2014

Marco Borghese, 70, of Cutchogue, was pronounced dead at Peconic Bay Medical Center, in Riverhead, after a two-vehicle collision June 30, 2014, on Route 25A in Wading River. Suffolk County police said Borghese’s car "failed to navigate a curve in the roadway" and collided head-on with a delivery truck.

The owner of Long Island's first winery -- Castello di Borghese, originally Hargrave -- died in an auto accident Monday afternoon in Wading River, days after his wife died following an illness, officials and police said.

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Thursday, December 26, 2013
A 39-year-old Long Island woman has been arrested for allegedly driving drunk with her two young children in the car, police say. Suffolk County police say Laquita Brooks was arrested after losing control of the car and striking a signpost and then a tree Thursday night in Huntington. Police say her 5-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter were seated in the rear and didn't have proper child restraints. The girl suffered a serious head injury and her brother sustained a minor head injury. The mother wasn't seriously hurt.