Crime & Safety
Car Flips on Rte. 135; Mom, Child Hospitalized
Plainview, Bethpage firefighters assist victims; traffic tied up.
A mother and child were freed from their overturned vehicle following a crash Sunday evening on the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway, just south of the Old Country Road exit.
Firefighters from and and Nassau County Highway Patrol units responded to the 6:50 p.m. crash on the southbound side of state Rte. 135, just south of Old Country Road.
Inside the wreckage, they discovered a mother and her child trapped. Firefighters treated the injured at the scene, and then transported them to Nassau University Medical Center.
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Firefighters described their injuries as "non-life threatening."
Traffic was backed up for some time as firefighters righted the flipped vehicle and secured the roadway.
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