The former Superintendent of Port Washington schools, Michael J. Hynes, faces improved charges in Crash Dwi

The former superintendent of Port Washington schools, Michael J. Hynes, is expected to return to the court on Friday to face improved charges in relation to an November accident that seriously injured a motorcyclist in Sayville.

Hynes, 54, from Sayville, will be prosecuted before the Judge of the State Supreme Court, John Collins, for second -degree vehicle assault charges and drunk in drunk, according to judicial records. He He declared himself innocent at a position of DWI in November.

Hynes’s lawyer, John Halverson, declined on Wednesday to comment.

After the reading of November charges of his client, Halverson called Hynes a “very good family man” and said: “We hope to challenge these positions and expect a positive result.”

Police have said that Hynes was driving a Honda Civic North 2019 in Railroad Avenue in Sayville when he tried to do a left in Depot Street and crashed into a Harley-David 2022 motorcycle that was heading to the south shortly after 9 pm on November 24.

Police said the motorcyclist, Alberto Fernández, from Sayville, was transported to the Hospital of South Shore in Bay Shore for the treatment of serious injuries. Hynes was also taken to the same hospital by minor injuries.

Fernández could not be contacted immediately to comment. His condition was not clear on Wednesday.

Halverson said previously that his client rejected a preliminary breath test on the scene, but consented to a blood test in the hospital. Judicial documents claim that Hynes had a blood alcohol level of at least 0.08%.

Hynes won $ 352,421 last school year, according to Newsday records. I was ready for go out The Port Washington School District in December “to find an opportunity in the private education sector.”

After their arrest, the officials of the Port Washington school called Chris Shields, the Superintendent Human Resources assistant and the leadership development of the district, as an interim superintendent while looking for a permanent replacement.

Before taking first place in Port Washington, Hynes was a superintendent of the Patchogue-Medford and Shelter Island school districts.

During his five-year term with the district, Hynes was attributed to help increase the graduation rate in Paul D. Schreiber High School to 98.9% for the 2023-24 school year. That amounted to an increase of 4 percentage points when the work began.

With Grant Plpan