Crime & Safety
Driver Killed After Striking Telephone Pole in Port Jeff Station
A Miller Place man died Wednesday night after he hit a telephone pole while driving westbound on Route 347.
A Miller Place man was killed Wednesday night, according to police, after he crashed into a telephone pole while driving alone in Port Jefferson Station shortly after 8 p.m.
Gerard Daguanno, 49, was driving a 1998 Oldsmobile westbound on Route 347, police said, when his vehicle veered off the road and struck the pole near Woodhull Avenue.
He was pronounced dead at the scene by an assistant with the Suffolk County Medical Examiner's Office.
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Police are investigating the incident and impounded the car, and anyone with any information about the crash is asked to call the Sixth Precinct at 631-854-8652.
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