Crime & Safety
Car Strikes Tree on Woodbury Road; Woman Airlifted to Hospital
Vehicle was stuck between tree and wall; Syosset firefighters remove roof to free driver.
Syosset Firefighters cut through the roof of a crashed car on Woodbury Road Thursday in order to free a woman trapped in the wreckage.
The woman was airlifted to with serious injuries, firefighters said.
The crash took place about 7:40 p.m. Thursday on Woodbury Road near Yukon Drive when the car hit a tree, wedging it between the tree and a cement wall. Syosset Firefighters and Nassau County Police responded and discovered the woman pinned inside the wreckage, the car leaking gasoline.
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Firefighters removed the car roof quickly and freed the woman. Her condition could not be learned.
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