Six escape serious injury after SUV flips in Valley Stream

Two people suffered non-life-threatening injuries and four others escaped unharmed after the SUV they were in flipped and landed on its side on South Drive on December 15.

No other vehicles were involved in the crash, which occurred at around 4 p.m. South Drive resident Vincent Speziale and his daughter Rosemarie rushed to aid the six occupants after they watched the SUV through their bay window come to rest in front of their home.

“It stood on one headlight and flipped over,” Rosemarie said. “My father pulled six kids out of that truck. One had a possible concussion, and one had a deep cut on his hand. All were shaky and in shock.”

An ambulance took one passenger to the hospital while another was treated at the scene.

Speziale, who has lived in his house since 1961, estimated the vehicle’s driver and passengers were high school age. He said the incident was the sixth time he’s come to the aid of motorists who’ve crashed on the short residential block. Drivers sometimes fail to negotiate the road’s curve, he said, and speed is often a factor.

“I tried to get a petition going but my neighbors wouldn’t sign it,” he said. He hoped to request that the village address the road’s condition, saying that its two stop signs fail to slow drivers traveling between Mill Road and Cochran Place.

“The way some people come down that road is scary,” Rosemarie said.