Sanitation Worker Run Over, Killed In Lindenhurst: Police

Lindenhurst NY

01 April, 2020

10:21 AM

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LINDENHURST, NY — A sanitation worker was killed in Lindenhurst Wednesday morning after he fell off his truck, according to Suffolk police. Jonathan Kehoe, 59, of Medford, was riding on the back of the truck at 9:05 a.m. collecting garbage when he fell off as the driver was going in reverse on South 4th Street, just south of 3rd Avenue, police said. Kehoe was run over, police said. Kehoe was transported to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip and pronounced dead. Officers from the Suffolk County Police Motor Carrier Safety Section responded to the scene to perform a safety check on the vehicle. Detectives asked anyone with information on the crash to call the First Squad at 631-854-8152.