Riverhead Man Dies After Truck Falls on Him

By Timothy Bolger Posted on August 17, 2014

A 48-year-old man was killed when the truck he was working on fell and pinned him in the backyard of his Riverhead home on Saturday evening.

Riverhead Town Police said Rony Calderon was changing the oil on the vehicle behind his Melane Avenue home when the front wheels of the truck rolled off the ramps and pinned him underneath at 6:30 p.m.

His neighbors tried to free him by jacking the vehicle up. Officers found the victim unconscious when they arrived and began CPR. He was taken to Peconic Bay MEdical Center, where he died shortly later.

Investigators determined the death to be an accident.

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Timothy Bolger

Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.