Police chase ends in crash

A high speed police chase from Holtsville to Selden came crashing to an end Friday when a fleeing car smashed into a police vehicle positioned to block its escape route, Suffolk police said.

No one was seriously injured in the incident, police said.

Oran Bushey, 52, of 7 Triangle La., Calverton, was charged Friday with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, unlawfully fleeing a police officer and resisting arrest.

A Suffolk officer was driving a police Emergency Services truck west on the Long Island Expressway near exit 66 about 11:40 a.m., when a 1986 Volvo went past him at a high rate of speed, police said.

Det. Sgt. Edward Fandry said the officer "sees this guy coming up behind him fast and puts on his emergency lights. The guy goes right by him as though he were standing still."

The officer radioed to get help and tried to follow the Volvo, Fandry said, but could not keep up with the car, which was traveling about 90 miles per hour. Other police units arrived and continued after the Volvo, police said.

The car, driven by Bushey, left the expressway at exit 62 and traveled north to Nicolls Road, then to South Coleman Road and then on to local neighborhood streets where he lost the pursuing officers, Fandry said.

A short time later, the same Emergency Services truck and officer were eastbound on Jericho Turnpike and when the officer recognized the Volvo traveling westbound in his direction, police said. The officer put the heavy box style police truck in a lane position to force the Volvo to stop, but Bushey did not, police said. "He runs into the EMS vehicle, and then careens into a snow embankment," Fandry said.

Bushey, and the EMS officer, who was not identified by name, were treated for minor injuries at Stony Brook University Hospital and released, police said.

Bushey was to be arraigned Saturday in First District Court, Central Islip.