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Mostly Cloudy Bellmore F.D., police rescue motorists in four-car crash
A team of firefighters and police officers rescued two trapped motorists after a four-car accident near Bellmore Avenue and Sunrise Highway last week. Witnesses reported that a car sped through the parking lot between Piccolo’s restaurant and the King Kullen grocery store and caused the collisions.
Bellmore Fire Department officials said they received a call about the crash at 4:21 p.m. on Aug. 26. Chief Stephen Marsar said witnesses reported that the unidentified driver was racing eastward through the lot when the vehicle jumped the curb, plowed through bushes and street signs and crashed into two cars waiting at the red light on Bellmore Avenue. The impact caused one car to skid south on Bellmore Avenue, while the other two were thrown into another parking lot, near the 7-Eleven on Sunrise Highway, striking a fourth car that was parked there.
Bellmore firefighters and Nassau County police officers arrived a minute after receiving the call, Marsar said. Engine 601 volunteers secured the cars’ leaking fluids and disconnected their batteries before using the Jaws of Life, a rescue tool, to extricate two trapped drivers.
Police and fire ambulances transported the unidentified motorists to a local hospital for treatment of what were described as non-life-threatening injuries.
Bellmore emergency medical technicians examined four people at the accident site. Marsar said that two more refused medical attention. While no one was seriously hurt, he said, three of the four cars sustained extensive damage.
