Freeport Crash Leaves Driver Dead

By Timothy Bolger Posted on August 30, 2016

A 56-year-old Sound Beach man was killed when his van was involved in a crash with a truck in Freeport early Monday morning.

Nassau County police said Donald Curatolo was driving a Ford E150 van westbound on Sunrise Highway when the van collided with a box truck that was making a left turn at the corner of Helen Avenue at 5:30 a.m.

Curatolo was pronounced dead at the scene. His passenger was taken to a local hospital for treatment of his injuries. The other driver was not injured.

First Squad detectives found no criminality involved.

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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.