Two pedestrians were injured on Saturday afternoon when an SUV in the parking lot outside the Target store in Valley Stream crashed, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
A driver reversed a 2023 Nissan and hit two pedestrians, a man and a woman, who were walking near the store adjacent to\u00a0the Green Acres Mall on Sunrise Highway around 3:18 p.m., Nassau County police said in a release. The vehicle struck the barriers in front of the Target and hit the building,\u00a0causing minimal damage, police said.<\/p>\n
Both the man, 39, and woman, 34, were transported to hospitals with minor injuries, police said. The driver, a 28-year-old woman,\u00a0was uninjured, police said.<\/p>\n
Representatives of the Valley Stream Target store could not be reached by phone.<\/p>\n
More coverage: Every 7 minutes on average a traffic crash causing death, injury or significant property damage happens on Long Island. A Newsday investigation<\/a> found that traffic crashes killed more than 2,100 people between 2014 and 2023 and seriously injured more than 16,000 people. To search for fatal crashes in your area, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Alek Lewis covers the towns of Southampton, East Hampton and Shelter Island for Newsday. He previously worked as a reporter for RiverheadLOCAL, where he received awards from the New York Press Association and the Press Club of Long Island for his reporting on local government and politics. A Riverhead native, he is a graduate of Stony Brook University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two pedestrians were injured on Saturday afternoon when an SUV in the parking lot outside the Target store…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[23403,8015,9,24,63,104,122,124,123,608],"class_list":["post-76881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-dangerous-roads","tag-nassau","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-police","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76881","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=76881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}