Crime & Safety
19-Year Old Dies After Crashing Into Telephone Pole: Cops
Police have identified the young man who died in the crash. Our hearts go out to his family.
EAST QUOGUE, NY — A 19-year old died Saturday after he crashed into a telephone pole in East Quogue, police said.
According to Southampton Town Police, the crash took place at 9:25 a.m. when Gianni Mongelluzzo, of East Quogue, who was driving a 1997 corvette, crashed into the pole on Old Country Road near Lewis Road.
The East Quogue Fire Department extricated the young man; he was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital by Suffolk County Police aviation, where he later died, police said.
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