Police probe whether speed was factor in crash that killed 5
MANORVILLE, N.Y. – Police are investigating whether speed was a factor in a multi-vehicle crash on a major Long Island roadway that killed five people including a former aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The crash happened Sunday morning on the Long Island Expressway, near Manorville.
Among those killed was 29-year-old Scott Martella, a communications director for Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and a former aide to Cuomo.
Police say the driver of an eastbound Subaru Outback, 26-year-old Carmelo Pinales, apparently lost control of his vehicle, which crossed over the grassy median, went airborne and struck two westbound vehicles, a BMW and a Honda.
Pinales, his 27-year-old sister, Patricia Pinales, and 10-year-old son, Christopher, all died.
A passenger in the BMW, 81-year-old Isidore Adelson, also was killed.
Martella was driving the Honda.
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