A 29-year-old Kings Park motorcyclist was seriously injured Friday night after a Jeep Gladiator turned onto Pulaski Road and collided with his eastbound Kawasaki, according to Suffolk County Police. The crash happened near Glen Road at approximately 9:20 p.m., sending the rider to a Level I trauma center while the Jeep driver walked away unharmed.
Suffolk County Police identified the injured rider as Ethan Semevolos-Bullock and the Jeep driver as 46-year-old Sharif Oma Hassan, both of Kings Park, according to News 12 Long Island. Police said Hassan was making a right turn onto Pulaski Road from Glen Road in his 2023 Jeep Gladiator when he struck Semevolos-Bullock's 2014 Kawasaki motorcycle. Semevolos-Bullock was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital, as first reported by Daily Voice, which detailed the vehicles involved and the impound of both for safety checks.
Suffolk County Police Fourth Squad detectives are continuing the investigation and have not announced whether Hassan will face traffic summonses or criminal charges. Police are asking anyone with information to call Fourth Squad detectives at 631-854-8452.
A Familiar Danger on Pulaski Road
Friday's collision is not the first serious crash tied to a turning vehicle on this stretch of Pulaski Road. In May 2025, a 14-year-old e-bike rider suffered serious injuries after being struck by an SUV turning onto the same roadway in Kings Park, an incident that also triggered a Fourth Squad investigation, per the same account from Long Island Life & Politics. Years earlier, in August 2018, a 50-year-old Kings Park bicyclist died from a fractured skull at Stony Brook University Hospital after colliding with a van while trying to cross Pulaski Road, according to Newsday.
Turning maneuvers like the one described in Friday's crash sit at the center of a well-documented hazard for motorcyclists. Local safety advocates have identified passenger vehicle turns at intersections as a leading cause of severe motorcycle crashes, noting that drivers frequently misjudge a rider's speed or distance, or simply fail to spot a smaller vehicle at all, Newsday reported. Under New York Vehicle and Traffic Law Sections 1142 and 1143, any driver entering or turning onto a main roadway from an intersecting street must yield the right-of-way to vehicles already traveling on that thoroughfare, according to legal guidance compiled by Justia Law.
Part of a Regional Surge in Motorcycle Crashes
The Kings Park crash lands amid a broader spike in motorcycle fatalities across Long Island. Twelve motorcyclists died in May and June of 2024 alone, compared to six during the same two-month span in 2023, according to WLIW. Statewide, motorcycle fatalities jumped nearly 12% between 2022 and 2023, the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles reported, prompting the Governor's Traffic Safety Committee to fund targeted enforcement and the “Drive Safe Long Island” education campaign.
Suffolk County has repeatedly ranked as the deadliest county in the region for motor vehicle crashes. The county recorded 109 fatal crashes resulting in 118 deaths in 2024, according to New York Metropolitan Transportation Council data shared in a Facebook post this month. Hoodline has covered other recent instances of the toll on local riders, including a fatal Centereach red-light crash in July.
Advanced Trauma Care, Uncertain Recovery
Semevolos-Bullock was brought to Stony Brook University Hospital, which operates the only American College of Surgeons-verified Level I Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center in Suffolk County, featuring round-the-clock in-house trauma surgeons, according to Stony Brook Medicine. His current medical condition has not been publicly disclosed. Police have not said whether any additional details from the impounded vehicles' safety checks will factor into potential charges against Hassan.
