STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — While Staten Islanders seem to have escaped the Christmas holiday without serious traffic-related injury, the roads have still seen crashes that kept emergency responders and emergency rooms busy.
On Christmas Eve, it was ironically an ambulance that was involved in a crash.
Firefighters responded to an emergency call at 9:36 p.m., according to an FDNY spokesperson.
The crash, on a busy stretch of Forest Avenue near Richmond Avenue involved two vehicles—one an ambulance that overturned, the spokesperson said.
Three people with minor injuries were transported from the scene to the hospital.
Then, at 7:19 a.m. on Christmas Day, a two-car crash at Victory Boulevard and Steward Avenue sent another two people to the hospital with minor injuries.
According to a NYPD spokesperson, a 2023 Ford operated by a 34 year-old male was traveling on Victory Boulevard toward Steward Avenue when the vehicle was struck by a 2016 Hyundai, operated by a 74 year-old male, traveling along Stewart Avenue.
The driver of the Hyundai was issued a summons for disobeying a stop sign, the spokesperson said.
And with roads still busy the day after Christmas as people rushed to stores for their pre-winter storm shopping, a crash occurred at Hylan Boulevard and Ebbitts Street in New Dorp.
A day-after Christmas crash at Hylan Boulevard and Ebbitts Street.Advance/SILive.com | Luke Peteley
A FDNY spokesperson said the emergency call came across at 12:28 p.m.; emergency transmissions indicated that a car was pinned and extraction was required.
At the scene following the crash, the door of a vehicle had been removed and laid on the sidewalk.
The FDNY spokesperson said EMS transported one person with minor injuries to the hospital.