Police: 1 dead after garbage truck, several vehicles involved in crash on LIE Service Road in Hauppauge
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. -- An investigation is underway into what caused a garbage truck to lose control and end up in a deadly crash in Suffolk County.
One person was killed and two others were injured.
Police say the truck rear-ended a school bus and three cars at a red light at around 9 a.m. on Monday on the Long Island Expressway service road near Motor Parkway in Hauppauge.
Witnesses described a chaotic chain of events.
"You can see the truck didn't even stop. It just kept pushing the cars out of the way," witness Preet Singh said. "It was like a big blast, when the truck hit the cars. It was like a boom sound."
The Department of Sanitation said it was one of its new trucks, but it was operated by a private vendor.
No one on board the bus was hurt.
