NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Two drivers on Long Island were charged with DWI and other crimes in separate crashes Saturday night that left two people with critical head injuries, police said.
Tayquan Mayodunmore, 29, was driving an ATV with Jessilyn Johnson as a passenger on Bellport Avenue in Brookhaven around 8 p.m. when the vehicle overturned, causing her to strike her head on the pavement between Louise and Hampton avenues, Suffolk County police said.
Johnson was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital with critical injuries. Mayodunmore was transported to Long Island Community Hospital in Patchogue
where he was treated for minor injuries and released. Neither rider was wearing a helmet.
He was charged with driving while intoxicated, first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and second-degree reckless endangerment.
A 60-year-old man was struck by a 2018 Mercedes-Benz on Front Street near New York Avenue in Uniondale around 10 p.m., according to Nassau County police.
The unidentified pedestrian was taken to a local hospital in critical condition with head trauma, police said.
The driver, Eric Wheatley, 44, has been charged with second-degree vehicular assault and driving while intoxicated.
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