Driver Falls Asleep at Wheel, Crashes into Tree

A man was taken to the hospital with minor injuries on Friday morning after he lost control of his car on Daly Road in Dix Hills.

The man was driving a Toyota SUV down Daly Road at Phyllis Drive around 10:40 a.m. when he fell asleep at the wheel and veered off the road, according to officials at the scene. He then knocked down a street sign and ripped up a fence before bouncing off a tree.

Suffolk Police and Dix Hills Rescue responded to the scene.