Suffolk County Police Major Case Unit detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a pedestrian and an additional crash involving an unmarked police vehicle that occurred in Wyandanch.
Firearms Suppression Team officers attempted to pull over a vehicle that had just left a known drug location in the vicinity of Sunrise Highway and Bayview Avenue in Amityville at 1:56 p.m. The vehicle fled and the officers followed the vehicle. The vehicle, a black Mercedes-Benz G-Class SUV, struck a Subaru on County Line Road and Francine Avenue in North Amityville. The Subaru driver was not injured. The Mercedes then struck a pedestrian on South 18th Street in Wyandanch at approximately 2 p.m. The driver fled the scene in the Mercedes.
A responding unmarked police vehicle, with emergency lights activated, traveling northbound on Straight Path, near Washington Avenue, was struck by an uninvolved Mazda that made a left turn in front of it at 2:05 p.m. Both vehicles overturned.
The pedestrian, Marie Anne Renaudin-Cene, 60, of Wheatley Heights, was transported to the hospital with serious injuries. The driver of the Mazda, Adrienne Passmore, 45, of Huntington Station, was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The four officers in the unmarked vehicle were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The Mercedes-Benz G-Class, bearing a temporary FL plate 10DENT, was occupied by at least two men. It was later determined that the vehicle had been reported stolen out of New York City.
Anyone with information is asked to call Major Case at 631-852-6553 or Suffolk County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.