State probe after rest home resident hit by car
Photo credit: James Carbone | An emergency response by police and ambulances, and a subsequent police investigation of a 5:38 a.m. accident, which left a woman, 70, with severe injuries, forced a shutdown of the eastbound Montauk Highway at Deer Park Avenue. The shutdown continued for at least two hours.
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The state is investigating how a 70-year-old woman was seriously injured Wednesday morning by a car after leaving a Babylon rest home, a New York Department of Health spokesman said.
Nancy Mikkelsen, who lives at the Bayview Rest Home, was struck as she tried to cross Montauk Highway a short distance from the home. She was unconscious after the accident, after suffering severe head and internal...
