Crime & Safety
1 Hurt As Vehicle Strikes Building In Mount Sinai: Police
The 78-year-old person was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Suffolk police say.
MOUNT SINAI, NY — One person was hurt when a 2025 Mercedes struck a building in Mount Sinai on Tuesday afternoon, Suffolk police said.
The car's driver, an 82-year-old man from Mt. Sinai hit the gas pedal on the vehicle instead of the brake in the parking lot of a building that has a Chase Bank and a medical office on Nesconset Highway, causing the vehicle to lurch forward and strike a building, according to police.
A 78-year-old person inside the vehicle was taken to an area hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
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It happened at about 3:30 p.m.
Further details were not immediately available.
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