STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Police responded to a single-vehicle crash just after 1 p.m. Saturday in which a driver lost traction, slid across a median and plowed into a fence, luckily evading oncoming traffic on a busy Charleston service road.
Tire tracks could be seen where a grey Jeep had crossed over the center median of Veterans Road East, the usually bustling service road for the northbound West Shore Expressway.
The driver, who was alone in the vehicle, refused medical treatment at the scene, her husband said.
According to the driver’s husband, who was not in the car: “My wife hit a patch of ice, and the car slid across the road into a fence. Nobody was injured. Nobody was in the backyard. That’s the main thing.”
A fence is heavily damaged following a single-vehicle crash on Veterans Road East and Ambassador Lane in Charleston on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (Owen Reiter for the Advance/SILive.com)Owen Reiter
A steady stream of traffic could be seen on Veterans Road East just after the accident occurred.
“Thank God no cars were coming in the opposite direction when this happened,’’ the driver’s husband said.
A fence is heavily damaged following a single-vehicle crash on Veterans Road East and Ambassador Lane in Charleston on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (Owen Reiter for the Advance/SILive.com)Owen Reiter