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Funeral arrangements set for Baiting Hollow crash victim

By Vera Chinese

Funeral arrangements have been set for the 36-year-old Belle Terre man who was killed in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday afternoon in Baiting Hollow.

Brian Costello was a passenger in a bus operated by Maryhaven Center of Hope, which runs several facilities on Long Island for the disabled, when the driver of a tractor trailer lost control of his truck on Sound Avenue and flipped, crushing almost the full length of the driver’s side of the bus.

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A wake is scheduled for Monday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at O.B. Davis funeral home in Port Jefferson. A funeral mass will follow at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Infant Jesus R.C. Church in Port Jefferson. Private cremation will follow.

He is survived by his father, Robert, his mother, Carol, and a brother, Robert.

“The family is at the moment, as you can understand, upset,” said Brian Odwyre, the family’s attorney.

The victim’s family does “thank everybody for their thoughts and prayers,” he said.

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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