Police seek driver after hit-and-run injures jogger in Sayville
A jogger was seriously hurt in a Sayville hit-and-run near Brook Street and Cherry Avenue, and Suffolk County police are still looking for the driver.
Suffolk County police are searching for the driver who struck a jogger in Sayville and fled, leaving the victim seriously injured near Brook Street and Cherry Avenue. The crash added to concern in a village where pedestrian safety has already drawn scrutiny after a separate Sayville case on nearby roads drew an intensive police review.
Police have not released the jogger’s name, the exact time of the crash or a description of the vehicle in the information now available. What is clear is that the injury happened in a residential part of Sayville where Brook Street meets Cherry Avenue, a stretch that neighbors regularly use on foot and by bike.
The latest case comes after a November 21, 2023 pedestrian crash in Sayville that was initially treated as a hit-and-run. In that incident, Suffolk County police said a 67-year-old Sayville woman was walking eastbound on Main Street when she tried to cross Railroad Avenue and was struck by a dark-colored Jeep traveling southbound on Railroad Avenue. Police said the Jeep did not stop, turned right onto Main Street and headed westbound.
That woman was taken by ambulance to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore with serious physical injuries. Detectives asked anyone with information to contact the Suffolk County Police 5th Squad or CrimeStoppers as they worked to track the vehicle and reconstruct what happened.
The 2023 case later changed after investigators reviewed the evidence. Police determined it was non-criminal, saying the woman had been clipped by a sideview mirror and that the driver remained at the scene. Police identified that motorist as a 57-year-old Oakdale resident operating a 2012 Jeep Wrangler.
That earlier investigation shows how quickly the facts in pedestrian crashes can shift as detectives sort out witness accounts, vehicle damage and surveillance evidence. For Sayville residents, the current case leaves a more immediate question: who was driving near Brook Street and Cherry Avenue, and why did that driver leave a seriously injured jogger behind?
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