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Eastbound LIE Reopens After 2 Crashes, 1 Involving Squad Car

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) -- Two crashes – one of them involving a police vehicle – shut down the eastbound Long Island Expressway during the Wednesday evening rush in Hauppauge.

One accident was in the eastbound lanes right at exit 56, Joe Biermann reported from Chopper 2. A Suffolk County Highway Patrol car rear-ended another vehicle.

A mile away at exit 57, there was another accident involving a motorcycle, Biermann reported.

Charles Clayton, 56, of Mastic, was headed east in the LIE in heavy traffic when he lost control of his 2008 Honda motorcycle, crashed into the high-occupancy vehicle barrier wall, and was thrown off his motorcycle into the roadway, police said.

Clayton was rushed by helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital in Stony Brook, where he was being treated for multiple serious injuries late Monday.

The eastbound LIE was closed on the stretch where the accidents occurred for over two hours, but later reopened.

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