Christian Cabrera Escobar of Hempstead charged with DWI after Hempstead Turnpike crash, police say

Nassau County police have arrested a Hempstead man they said drove into the back of a bus on Hempstead Turnpike in Uniondale Tuesday morning.

Christian Cabrera Escobar, 23, was charged with driving while intoxicated and traffic infractions, according to a police statement.

Police said that a crash between a Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE) bus and a 2012 white Honda Civic at Uniondale Avenue was reported around 4:50 a.m.

The bus had broken down and was stopped in the right lane on eastbound Hempstead Turnpike, police said. The driver, 60, put on the vehicle’s hazard lights and placed reflective triangles in the roadway. He was sitting inside when he felt “a hard impact” in the back of the bus, police said.

Officers at the scene arrested Escobar, the unlicensed driver of the Civic, according to the police.

The bus driver, Escobar and a passenger in the Civic were all taken to area hospitals with minor injuries.

Escobar will be arraigned when medically cleared, police said.