{"id":244020,"date":"2026-05-26T16:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/244020\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T16:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:28:18","slug":"driver-dies-as-car-splits-in-half-in-crash-on-northern-state-in-smithtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/244020\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver dies as car splits in half in crash on Northern State in Smithtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1024\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP25027502186513.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid mb-4 wp-post-image\" alt=\"New York State Police patrol car.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A driver was killed Monday night when their car split in two and they were ejected from the vehicle in a crash on the Northern State Parkway in Smithtown, state police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Troopers responded about 8:30 p.m. to the one-car wreck on the westbound side of the parkway near the New Highway overpass at exit 46, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said the driver was thrown from a 2010 Volkswagen EOS, which had split in half. The driver was the vehicle\u2019s only occupant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators determined erratic operation and unsafe speed contributed to the cause of the crash, police said. The victim\u2019s name was not immediately released pending family notification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact the state police\u2019s Troop L public information office at 631.756.3324.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Top: New York State Police logo on a state police officer\u2019s car (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig, File)<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GLI_LOGO-FAVICON-NOBG.png\" alt=\"Your Long Island news, delivered.\" width=\"180\" height=\"60\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                Your Long Island news, delivered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"description\">Subscribe to the GLI Newsletter \u2014 its free<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver was killed Monday night when their car split in two and they were ejected from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8939,9,11,10,49,51,50,747,37116,95300,773,64011,95301],"class_list":["post-244020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-fatal-crash","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-northern-state-parkway","tag-smithtown","tag-suffolk-county","tag-traffic-fatality","tag-troop-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244020","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=244020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}