A Ronkonkoma couple, married for 54 years, were both killed in Ronkonkoma when they crashed into a tree, police said.

They were driving west on Peconic Street at about 11:20 a.m. on Saturday when their white Subaru Forester veered off the road across the eastbound lane and hit the tree, police said.

Margaret, 75, and Walter Jakubowski, 83, who was driving the vehicle, were both pronounced dead at the scene. No other vehicles were involved, and the cause of the crash is under investigation, police said.

Walter Jakubowski, known as "Butch," was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. Margaret Jakubowski was born in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

The couple met on separate skiing trips to New Hampshire. They moved to Ronkonkoma in 1973 to be closer to family and raise their three children, according to son S

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