{"id":796473,"date":"2026-05-14T19:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/796473\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:12:20","slug":"lie-sinkhole-in-melville-disrupting-westbound-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/796473\/","title":{"rendered":"LIE sinkhole in Melville disrupting westbound traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large sinkhole on the Long Island Expressway is disrupting traffic in Melville, Suffolk County police said Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The right and center lanes of the westbound LIE were closed at Exit 49N because of the sinkhole.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Suffolk County Police said one car &#8220;partially entered&#8221; the sinkhole. Fortunately there were no injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sinkhole is said to be about 10 feet wide and eight feet deep.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The closure of the two lanes is expected to last at least a day, Suffolk Police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are urged to avoid the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check back soon for more on this developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large sinkhole on the Long Island Expressway is disrupting traffic in Melville, Suffolk County police said Thursday.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,324940,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,219251,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-796473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-long-island-expressway","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-sinkhole","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116574522530863582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}