An alleged drunk driver veered off a Lengthy Island street and crashed into a number of boats at a marina, sparking a fireplace that left the vessels badly broken.
The crash occurred Sunday evening round 10 p.m., in keeping with police, who mentioned the division obtained a number of 911 calls a couple of girl driving within the flawed path on Route 231 in Babylon previous to the wreck. The motive force crashed via a fence and into a ship, police mentioned.
Officers and a bystander pulled the motive force, a 54-year-old girl from West Babylon, out of the burning automotive. The motive force, who has not been recognized, was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, the place she was anticipated to get better and face a decide at a later date.
Afterward, all that remained was the shell of a ship that was burned past recognition.
“If this was during the day, you wouldn’t be looking at boats — you’d be looking at dead people. This is an extremely busy road.” mentioned Jimmy Luttieri, who owns Suffolk Marine Middle.
And it wasn’t the primary time one thing like this has occurred.
“This is probably the sixth or seventh time in the last four or five years,” mentioned Doug DiLorenzo, of Wayside Fence Firm, including {that a} automotive crashed via in 2023 and hit an workplace. He was on the scene Monday measuring to put in one other new fence.
Some say a guardrail on East Primary Road would possibly stop vehicles from crusing via. Others blame drunk drivers.
“[A guardrail] would be nice to stop people from doing this, but you can’t drink and drive. The laws need to be stricter in my opinion,” mentioned Luttieri.
