Suffolk County Police today arrested a man for driving while intoxicated after he crashed his car into a police vehicle, injuring the officer, in Melville.
A marked Suffolk County Police Highway Patrol vehicle was parked on the side of the westbound Long Island Expressway, near exit 49, while processing an earlier motor vehicle crash at that location when the patrol car was struck by a 2018 Honda Accord that had veered off the highway at 4:38 a.m.
The officer was transported in a police vehicle to Stony Brook University Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the Honda, Kushal Dilawri, was not injured.
Dilawri, 33, of Hicksville, was charged with Driving While Intoxicated. He is being held at the Second Precinct for arraignment today at First District Court in Central Islip.