A drunken truck driver took care of his 18-wheeler in a crash barrier on the Long Island Expressway on Monday evening, causing hundreds of foot to leave the metal and two sinked lamp poles in his wake, the police said.
Timothy Murray, 64, from Mastic Reed in a Freightliner tractor of 2016 who got a trailer on the west on the lie in Dix Hills when he ran the lane at the right shoulder of the Suffolk County police.
Murray then collapsed in the crash barrier before he came to a stop to the east of the 50 Off-disaster, the police said around 7:45 pm.
He left a few hundred feet crashed and two downstairs street lamps, the authorities said.
Another vehicle also became disabled when it went over the rubble in the road, Cops said.
The destructive crash forced two lanes from the western highway to close more than six hours, so that first response could remove the vehicles and clean up the mess – including about 50 liters of spilled diesel fuel, the police said.
Murray was arrested and accused of driving under the influence, the police said.
He is expected to be presented on Tuesday at the first court in Central Islip.
