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Cops: 4 hurt when taxi driver on drugs hits SUV

Five people were injured in a crash involving

Photo credit: Kevin Imm | Five people were injured in a crash involving a taxi and an SUV on Sunday night in Plainview.

A taxi driver was charged Sunday night with driving while impaired on drugs after he went the wrong way down a Plainview road and crashed head-on into a sport utility vehicle carrying a family, Nassau police said.

The taxi driver was driving west on Old Country Road about 9:10 p.m. when he crossed into the eastbound lanes near Hope Drive and collided with an SUV carrying two parents and their...

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