Driver nabbed in Lake Ronkonkoma hit-and-run crash that badly injured boy on e-bike

Police arrested a Lake Ronkonkoma in connection with Tuesday night’s hit-and-run crash that left a teenage e-bike rider badly injured, Suffolk police said.

Detectives from the police department’s Fourth Squad charged Virginia Waka, 47, with leaving the scene of an accident with serious injury for allegedly taking off after she struck 13-year-old Travis Wertovitch, who was riding an e-bike along Hawkins Avenue, police said.

Waka was going south on Hawkins Avenue in Lake Ronkonkoma and turning left onto School Street about 8:30 p.m. when the 2012 white Ford Fusion she was driving hit the boy, police said. She was headed in the direction of her home on Wellington Court just blocks away.

Waka was issued a desk appearance ticket and is expected to appear in First District Court in Central Islip at a later date, according to authorities.

The teen was was taken to Stony Brook University Hospital for treatment of serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.

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