{"id":235236,"date":"2026-05-18T13:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235236\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:12:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-driver-entrapped-after-suv-crashes-into-centerport-fire-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235236\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Driver Entrapped After Suv Crashes Into Centerport Fire Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An SUV rammed into the Centerport Fire Department building early Monday morning, leaving the driver trapped for over an hour.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fire officials say the driver initially collided with a tree on Centerport Road around 2:19 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">This led to the accelerator becoming stuck, sending it hurdling into the station at the intersection of Fort Salonga and Little Neck roads.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The driver was trapped inside the SUV but remained fully conscious and alert. Crew members removed debris and a vehicle parked nearby.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fire officials say they used hydraulic tools to extricate the driver, who was then taken to Huntington Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Their injuries were minor, according to Suffolk County police. No one else was hurt during the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Huntington Town Building Inspector was called in to assess the building damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An SUV rammed into the Centerport Fire Department building early Monday morning, leaving the driver trapped for over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-235236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}