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Tractor trailer overturns near Suffolk County Center

By Vera Chinese

BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | A tractor trailer overturned nead the Suffolk County Center in Riverside Wednesday morning.

A tractor trailer flipped onto its side while traveling on County Road 51 near the Suffolk County Center in Riverside Wednesday morning, leaving the road outside the courts complex awash in landscaping debris, Southampton Town Police said.

No serious injuries were reported.

The driver of the truck, whom police did not identify, was taken via Flanders Northampton Volunteer Ambulance to Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. No other vehicles were involved in the crash.

Police said the truck, which was traveling in the southbound lane, flipped and landed in the median about 11:30 a.m., spilling tree trunks, dirt and other natural waste onto the road. It was not clear what company owned the truck.
The cause of the accident was not immediately determined, authorities said.

The Riverhead Fire Department also responded to the scene.

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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