Crime & Safety

Car Strikes Girl on East Park

12-year-old taken to hospital with head injury.

A 12-year-old girl was hospitalized after a car struck her in Long Beach on Wednesday afternoon.

According to Richard Corbett, chief of the Long Beach Fire Department, a car was travelling eastbound on East Park Avenue and hit the child who was walking at Roosevelt Boulevard intersection during the 5 p.m. hour on June 8.  

The girl, a Long Beach resident, suffered a head injury and a LBFD ambulance transported her to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow.

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