Rocky Point, NY - February 18, 2017 - Suffolk County Police Seventh Squad detectives are investigating a motor vehicle crash that killed a woman and seriously injured her husband in Rocky Point today.
Florin Tilinca was driving a 2014 Jeep on Route 25A and was preparing to stop for a red light at the intersection of Fairway Drive at approximately 12:20 p.m. when a 2015 Subaru traveling in the westbound lane of Route 25A crossed into the eastbound lane and struck the Jeep.
The driver of the Subaru, Lucio Costanzo, 73, of Port Jefferson, was airlifted via Suffolk County Police helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital in serious condition. His wife, Stephanie Costanzo, 73, who was a passenger in the vehicle, was transported to John T. Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson where she was pronounced dead. Tilinca and his 16-year-old son were transported to St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson with non-life-threatening injuries.
The vehicles were impounded for safety checks. Anyone with information on this crash is asked to call the Seventh Squad at 631-852-8752.