What Happened
A 93-year-old pedestrian was killed Wednesday afternoon, October 28, 2026, in Dix Hills when a landscaping truck that was backing up struck her, Suffolk County Police said.
According to police, the woman was walking northbound on Seneca Court when the truck hit her at approximately 2:10 p.m. She was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip, where she was pronounced dead. Police said she lived in Dix Hills.
The truck’s driver, of Huntington Station, was not injured, police said. Officers from the department’s Motor Carrier Safety Section inspected the vehicle at the scene. Suffolk County Police Second Squad detectives are investigating the crash.
Local Crash Record
Federal FARS fatal-crash records from 2010 through 2024 list 27 fatal crashes within Dix Hills’s 2020 Census boundaries, in which 27 people died. Seven of those killed were pedestrians, and the 2024 figures are preliminary. These counts come from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System, which tallies crashes on public roads in which someone died within 30 days and places each one by its reported coordinates. They are counts only and say nothing about the cause of this crash.
What Officials Have Said Next
Detectives are asking anyone with information about the crash to call the Second Squad at 631-854-8252.
What we don’t know yet: police have not said whether the driver faces any charges, or what the Motor Carrier Safety Section inspection of the truck found.
Sources
- Suffolk County Police Department (official record)
- Suffolk County Police Department (official record)
- Patch