A woman was struck and killed while walking westbound across Route 110 at Conklin Street in East Farmingdale on Saturday night, and the driver who hit her will not face charges, according to Suffolk County police. The crash happened around 8:30 p.m. at a spot with no crosswalk, when a southbound Hyundai struck the pedestrian. She was taken to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, where she was pronounced dead.
The Suffolk County Police Department has not yet released the woman's name, pending notification of her family, as reported by Newsday, which first reported the crash. Police say she was crossing the roadway at a point where there is no marked crosswalk when the Hyundai struck her. Under New York's Vehicle and Traffic Law, pedestrians crossing outside a marked or unmarked crosswalk at an intersection are required to yield the right-of-way to vehicles, according to Porter Law Group, a provision that appears to underpin Suffolk police's decision not to bring charges against the driver.
That statute does not fully erase a driver's legal obligations, however. A separate provision, Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1146, requires every motor vehicle driver to exercise due care to avoid hitting a pedestrian on a roadway regardless of who technically had the right-of-way, per the same legal source. That distinction — between a pedestrian's yield obligation and a driver's independent duty of care — has repeatedly surfaced in cases along this stretch of road.
A Familiar and Deadly Intersection
This is not the first fatal pedestrian crash at Route 110 and Conklin Street. In February 2024, a 42-year-old man was struck and killed by a southbound GMC Savana at the same intersection around 11:10 p.m., and the driver in that case was also not charged, Newsday reported at the time. The intersection carries a darker history still: in May 2014, a street-racing crash there killed five teenagers after a vehicle crossed the center line on westbound Conklin Street, according to the Nassau County District Attorney's Office.
Regional safety researchers have long flagged the corridor as a hazard. The Tri-State Transportation Campaign has repeatedly named Route 110, also known as Broadhollow Road, among Long Island's most dangerous arterials for pedestrians, citing its high speeds and dense commercial traffic. Conklin Street, meanwhile, is designated New York State Route 24, an 18.6-mile commercial freight and commuter corridor running from Queens through Nassau County into East Farmingdale, a heavy mix of truck and passenger traffic that Hoodline has previously reported converges at this junction.
Recent Crashes and Ongoing Road Work
The fatal crash comes just two days after a separate serious collision nearby on Route 110, when a passenger vehicle rear-ended a stopped box truck, leaving a Copiague driver critically hurt and triggering commercial vehicle safety inspections. It also follows a pedestrian collision on Conklin Street two weeks ago, when a Farmingdale mother pushed her toddler out of a truck's path, though both were still struck.
State officials have been pouring money into the corridor even as the crashes mount. In July, New York launched a $58 million Long Island transportation initiative that includes $34.3 million to repave 35.8 lane miles of Route 110 and upgrade more than 280 curb ramps to ADA standards. Separately, the Town of Babylon finalized the scope in April for an Environmental Impact Statement covering the 113-acre East Farmingdale Overlay District, a redevelopment study along Route 110 and Conklin Street that is evaluating corridor traffic flow and pedestrian accessibility.
Suffolk County police have not said whether the woman's death will factor into either the state repaving project or the town's ongoing planning study. Her identity remains withheld while investigators work to notify her family.
