{"id":28284,"date":"2020-07-16T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/li-officials-were-warned-about-fatal-limo-crash-intersection-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2020-07-16T02:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T23:43:00","slug":"li-officials-were-warned-about-fatal-limo-crash-intersection-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/li-officials-were-warned-about-fatal-limo-crash-intersection-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"#LI officials were warned about fatal limo crash intersection: lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#LI officials were warned about fatal limo crash intersection: lawyer<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        Long Island officials were warned an accident was waiting to h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en where four women were killed in a 2015 limo crash \u2014 and a suit over the wreck has revealed a \u201ccover-up\u201d involving an undisclosed witness, a lawyer involved in the case told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>A 2012 email shows that Cutchogue resident Bill Shipman wrote to a Southold town official asking \u201chow many injuries will occur\u201d at a Route 48 intersection near the since-shuttered Vineyard 48 winery, lawyer Bob Sullivan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c10-16 in the limo? 4 in the other car? how many cars at 55 mph ? those are answers none of us would like to see,\u201d Shipman wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Shipman\u2019s fears were borne out five years ago Saturday, when a limo leaving Vineyard 48 and making a U-turn across Route 48 at Depot Lane was T-boned by an oncoming pick-up truck.<\/p>\n<p>The collision killed limo passengers Lauren Baruch, Stephanie Belli, Amy Grabina and Brittney Schulman, all in their early 20s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guy predicted the accident three years before it happened and neither the town of Southold nor the county of Suffolk did a thing, not one thing,\u201d alleged Sullivan, who represents the dead women\u2019s families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t give a damn \u2014 it\u2019s that simple.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan also said pending litigation over the crash had led to the discovery of an ambulance report showing there was a passenger in the pick-up truck, Michelle Canberg, whose identity wasn\u2019t previously revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe district attorney never told anyone. The police never told anyone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Canberg, 39, has denied being present during the incident, even though the report shows her vital signs were recorded at the scene, Sullivan alleged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPt [patient] states she was in Red Pick up truck passenger seat that impacted limo,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPt states no injuries. Refusing transport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan alleged that Canberg\u2019s presence at the scene wasn\u2019t initially revealed as a favor to pick-up driver Steve Romeo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRomeo is a very well-known, popular guy in Southold,\u201d Sullivan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a clear cover-up and there\u2019s been a cover-up in this case from Day One.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Romeo struck a no-jail plea deal to driving while ability impaired that let him off with a conditional discharge, a 90-day license suspension and a $500 fine \u2014 prompting profane outbursts in court from relatives of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>A call to the Southold supervisor\u2019s office was referred to the town\u2019s attorney, who didn\u2019t respond to a message seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>Southhold Police Chief Martin Flatley said, \u201cDuring the investigation, I don\u2019t think it was ever indicated that there was ever anyone other than Mr. Romeo in the pick-up truck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He declined to comment further, citing the suit pending in Suffolk County Supreme Court over the deadly crash.<\/p>\n<p>The Suffolk County Executive\u2019s Office declined to comment, and the Suffolk District Attorney\u2019s Office and Romeo\u2019s lawyer didn\u2019t return messages.<\/p>\n<p>There was no answer at the last known address for Canberg.<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Reuven Fenton<\/em>\n            <\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/15\/li-officials-were-warned-about-fatal-limo-crash-intersection-lawyer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#LI officials were warned about fatal limo crash intersection: lawyer&#8221; Long Island officials were warned an accident was waiting to happen where four women were killed in a 2015 limo crash \u2014 and a suit over the wreck has revealed a \u201ccover-up\u201d involving an undisclosed witness, a lawyer involved in the case told The Post&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39460],"class_list":["post-28284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-li-officials-were-warned-about-fatal-limo-crash-intersection-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}