Matthew Smith pleaded guilty to running a red light at 70 miles per hour while intoxicated and slamming into officer Patricia Espinosa's vehicle in Lake Grove back in January.
A grand jury has indicted the Long Island mother, Kerri Bedrick, on murder charges after police say she drove in the wrong direction on the Southern State Parkway.
Police say the victim's mother was driving under the influence and was fleeing an attempted traffic stop for driving the wrong way.
Eyewitness News rode along with Suffolk County police as they patrolled some of the deadliest streets in the state and set up sobriety checkpoints to get drunk drivers off the roads.
Prosecutors say Steven Schwally was the driver seen on surveillance video, whose car sped and flew into a nail salon in Deer Park.