Ambulance, car collide on Sunrise Highway

The Lynbrook Police Department report the details of a two-vehicle accident involving a Lynbrook Fire Department ambulance on Sunrise Highway at Vincent Avenue on Tuesday, resulting in the injuries of six people.

At 4:30 p.m., a 2002 Black Hyundai Elantra traveling eastbound in the left lane on Sunrise Highway collided with a Lynbrook Fire Department ambulance designed unit 425, traveling northbound on Vincent Avenue, according to police. The driver and sole occupant of the first vehicle, a West Islip woman, stated to police that she did not see the ambulance due to stopped eastbound traffic in the right and center lanes of Sunrise Highway. The ambulance driver told police that traffic in the right and center lanes had stopped eastbound, and she did not see the first vehicle in the left lane, according to a police report.

Five volunteers from the Lynbrook Fire Department were injured, and rushed to a local hospital, said Chief Michael Hynes. The volunteers suffered neck pain, according to police.

The driver of the first vehicle sustained face pain, and was also rushed to a local hospital. Her current condition is unknown at this time.

Lynbrook Mayor Bill Hendrick had visited the volunteers on Tuesday evening at the hospital. "...members were slightly injured, some more than others," he said of the volunteers' condition on Tuesday.

The volunteers were released as of Wednesday afternoon. "They are all out of the hospital, though they are bruised and sore," Hynes said on Wednesday.