Cops: Farmingdale drunken-driver hits 2 vehicles, flips car
A Farmingdale man was charged with driving while intoxicated after Nassau police said his car, seen on its side, struck two parked vehicles in a driveway on Motor Avenue in South Farmingdale on Friday, Dec. 19, 2014. The driver escaped unscathed through the sunroof, police said. Credit: Paul Mazza
A Farmingdale man was charged with driving while intoxicated after his car struck two parked vehicles in a driveway and overturned Friday night in South Farmingdale, police said.
Sameer Khurana, 23, of 28 Lincoln St., struck two cars in a driveway on Motor Avenue about 8:46 p.m., police said. He was arrested and charged with DWI, Nassau County police said.
Jim Martin, chief of the South Farmingdale Fire Department, said when firefighters arrived on the scene the car was "on its passenger side" and had hit two parked cars in the driveway of the house.
Martin said the driver "walked out of it through the sunroof. He was out of the car by the time we got there."
Police said Khurana refused medical treatment.
Arraignment details were not immediately available.
Nicole Fuller is Newsday's senior criminal justice reporter. She began working at Newsday in 2012 and previously covered local government.
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