An off-duty Nassau County police officer was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated after a wrong-way crash on the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway, the department said.

Officer Dominick Milazzo, 31, of Huntington Station, was driving his personal 2024 Ford Bronco north in the southbound lanes of New York State Route 135 around 4:45 a.m. Friday when he struck a 2026 International Harvester garbage truck, according to a Nassau County Police Department news release. The crash occurred near Exit 4, the highway’s connection to the Southern State Parkway in Seaford.

Nassau police ambulances took three people onboard the garbage truck, ages 56, 31 and 19, to hospitals to receive treatment for minor injuries, police said. Milazzo was also transported to a hospital for injuries considered

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