By Daniel Wagner
Newsday
SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y. — A Suffolk County police officer was hospitalized with face, neck and back pain yesterday evening after his cruiser collided with a moving car at a Bohemia intersection, police said.
Police Officer James Livreri was traveling southbound on Lakeland Avenue with his lights and siren on when he crossed the intersection at the South Service Road of Sunrise Highway at 5:38 p.m. and crashed into a 1997 Saturn being driven eastbound by Keith O’Brien, 33, of Atlantic Avenue, West Sayville.
Liwas responding to a call that a child had been struck by a car in Sayville when the accident occurred. The child received only minor injuries, and a police spokeswoman did not have further details on that accident.
She said the officer’s precinct command indicated the officer was not traveling above the speed limit.
Sayville Community Ambulance responded to the accident and transported Livreri to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore.
O’Brien’s arm was cut, but he refused medical attention, the spokeswoman said. She said there were no other injuries resulting from the incident, which police are treating as an accident.
Police did not plan to file any charges in connection with the incident.
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