{"id":231882,"date":"2026-05-14T20:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/231882\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T20:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:22:17","slug":"lie-sinkhole-in-melville-disrupting-westbound-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/231882\/","title":{"rendered":"LIE sinkhole in Melville disrupting westbound traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large sinkhole on the Long Island Expressway is disrupting traffic in Melville, Suffolk County police said Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The right and center lanes of the westbound LIE were closed at Exit 49N because of the sinkhole.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/lie-sinkhole-jd-hi-res-still-15-16-2310.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"lie-sinkhole-jd-hi-res-still-15-16-2310.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>Suffolk County Police said one car partially entered the sinkhole. Fortunately there were no injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sinkhole is said to be about 10 feet wide and eight feet deep.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Video from the scene captured emergency crews pulling the vehicle out of the sinkhole.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/chopper-3p-0514-hi-res-still-15-30-3724.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"chopper-3p-0514-hi-res-still-15-30-3724.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>The closure of the two lanes is expected to last at least a day, Suffolk Police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are urged to avoid the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check back soon for more on this developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large sinkhole on the Long Island Expressway is disrupting traffic in Melville, Suffolk County police said Thursday.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58525,9,11,10,58522],"class_list":["post-231882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-long-island-expressway","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-sinkhole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}