Sound Beach Man Dies in Truck Crash

By Timothy Bolger Posted on October 5, 2015

A 49-year-old man was killed when he crashed his truck in his hometown of Sound Beach over the weekend.

Suffolk County police said Richard Cambria was driving his Dodge pickup truck southbound on Islip Drive when the truck left the roadway and struck a telephone pole and retaining wall at 11:50 a.m. Saturday

The victim was taken to John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson, where he was pronounced dead.

Seventh Squad detectives impounded the vehicle and ask anyone with information on this crash to call them at 631-852-8752.

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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.