Holbrook man killed in Broadway Avenue hit-and-run, police say

A Holbrook pedestrian died on Broadway Avenue after a driver struck him and kept going, leaving Suffolk police to search for the fleeing motorist and adding another fatal hit-and-run to Suffolk County’s traffic toll. Mario Corvasce, 66, was hit in front of 780 Broadway Avenue at about 9:15 p.m. Thursday, June 11, and later pronounced dead at South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore.

Police said Corvasce was in the roadway when a southbound vehicle struck him. The driver did not stop at the scene, and Suffolk County police identified the crash as a hit-and-run fatality. The department’s Major Case Unit is investigating, a sign the crash is being handled as a serious death investigation rather than a routine traffic complaint.

Corvasce’s death puts another spotlight on the risks pedestrians face on Suffolk roads, especially in cases where a driver leaves the scene and minutes matter for medical response and evidence collection. Hit-and-run cases can make an already dangerous crash more deadly by delaying aid and complicating the effort to identify the vehicle involved.

The Holbrook fatality also fits a wider pattern of pedestrian trauma across Long Island. WalkSafeLI cited county crash-dashboard data showing 642 pedestrians were involved in crashes in Suffolk County from October 2024 through September 2025, with 573 injuries and 33 deaths. In Nassau County during the same period, 888 pedestrians were involved in crashes, with 856 injuries and 29 deaths. Across both counties, that amounted to 1,530 pedestrian-involved crashes and 62 fatalities.

Those numbers give context to what happened on Broadway Avenue, a corridor where one deadly strike can reflect a broader public-safety problem rather than a single isolated incident. Suffolk County’s public Open Data portal and the New York State Department of Health’s county traffic injury reports both provide additional ways to track pedestrian deaths and injuries, including county-by-county comparisons that can show whether specific stretches of road are part of a larger pattern.

For Holbrook, the immediate reality is stark: a 66-year-old resident is dead, a driver fled, and detectives now have to reconstruct a fatal evening on a busy Suffolk roadway.