What Happened
Miandad Khan pleaded guilty August 28, 2026, to aggravated vehicular assault and four related counts stemming from a three-vehicle, wrong-way crash on Deer Park Avenue in Deer Park that left five people hospitalized, including two elderly victims who required surgery, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office.
The sequence began around 3:20 p.m. on Saturday, May 17, 2025. Khan was behind the wheel of a 2016 Mercedes-Benz E350 traveling northbound on Deer Park Avenue when he struck a first vehicle near the intersection with Jacqueline Way, prosecutors said. Instead of stopping, he drove over a landscaped median and entered the opposing southbound lanes, heading the wrong way.
Khan then struck a Honda SUV carrying two teenagers, prosecutors said. He continued north in the southbound lanes and crashed head-on into a Toyota RAV-4 with two occupants in their 70s inside. Both people in the RAV-4 had to be extracted from the vehicle. They were transported to a hospital with facial and spinal fractures that required surgery, according to the DA’s office. The two teenagers and the driver of the first vehicle Khan hit were also hospitalized, with minor injuries.
Five people total were taken to the hospital across the three impacts. Khan was impaired by marijuana at the time, prosecutors said. He fled the scene of the initial collision before the second and third crashes.
Khan pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular assault, two counts of second-degree assault, DWAI, and third-degree assault, per Daily Voice’s report on the plea. He had faced a maximum of 25 years in prison on the charges as originally filed. The plea deal caps his exposure at two to six years.
DA Joe Wilkinson’s office announced the guilty plea on August 28, 2026. The case also matches details reported in the related DA release covering the initial charges.
Location & Road Context
Deer Park Avenue is a divided multi-lane commercial corridor running north-south through Deer Park in western Suffolk County. The stretch near Jacqueline Way carries heavy two-way traffic between the Southern State Parkway to the south and the Long Island Expressway service roads to the north. The landscaped median Khan drove over separates northbound and southbound lanes along that section of the road.
For real-time conditions on Deer Park Avenue and surrounding Suffolk County roads, see the Long Island Traffic live map.
Investigation & Legal Proceedings
Khan pleaded guilty in Suffolk County court to aggravated vehicular assault, two counts of second-degree assault, DWAI, and third-degree assault, according to DA Wilkinson’s office. Aggravated vehicular assault under New York Penal Law § 120.04-a applies when a driver causes serious physical injury while operating a vehicle in a criminally negligent or reckless manner while impaired. The two second-degree assault counts correspond to the two RAV-4 occupants who sustained fractures requiring surgery.
His sentencing is set for Friday, October 30, 2026. The DA’s office says Khan will face two to six years in state prison at that hearing.
Broader Impact
Under New York law, a conviction for aggravated vehicular assault — a class C violent felony — carries a mandatory minimum of two years and a maximum of 15 years in state prison. Khan’s plea agreement binds sentencing within the two-to-six-year range, well below the 25-year maximum he faced on the full indictment. The October 30 sentencing date will determine where within that range he falls.