Motor Vehicle Crash in Hauppauge Leaves Two Dead

Suffolk County Police Fourth Squad detectives are investigating a motor vehicle crash that killed two men in Hauppauge this evening.

Frank Rizzo, 30, was driving a 2008 Lexus eastbound on Veterans Memorial Highway, east of Northfield Road, in Hauppauge, when he apparently lost control of the vehicle and struck two trees at 5:10 p.m. The only passenger in the vehicle, Joseph DiFiore, 30, of Washington Township, New Jersey, was ejected from the Lexus.

DiFiore was transported to Stony Brook University Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. Rizzo, of 111 Deer Valley Road, Nesconset, was pronounced dead at the scene by a physician assistant from the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner.

The investigation is continuing. Detectives are asking anyone who may have witnessed the crash to call the Fourth Squad at 631-854-8452.