Minor injuries in 3-vehicle crash on Jericho Turnpike in Commack, police say
Firefighters at the scene of a three-vehicle crash on Jericho Turnpike in Commack on Friday afternoon. Credit: Joseph Sperber
A three-vehicle crash in Commack on Friday afternoon sent several people to the hospital and briefly shut down part of Jericho Turnpike, according to a spokesman for the Suffolk County Police Department.
The crash happened shortly after 1 p.m. near the turnpike’s intersection with Valmont Avenue.
A 60-year-old man from Medford was turning left from Jericho Turnpike onto Valmont Avenue when his 2012 Jeep was struck by a 22-year-old West Babylon man driving east on the turnpike in a 2023 Hyundai, police said. Both those vehicles then crashed into a 2020 Toyota at the Valmont intersection.
Pictures from the scene show firefighters using a jack to prop up an SUV, which is facing a sedan with extensive damage to its front.
People in the Jeep and Hyundai suffered minor injuries, according to the police spokesman, who said they were all treated and released from the hospital the same day. The driver of the Toyota was not taken to the hospital.
The crash shut down part of Jericho Turnpike from Valmont Avenue to Wiltshire Drive for roughly 40 minutes as first responders cleared the crash.
More coverage: Every 7 minutes on average a traffic crash causing death, injury or significant property damage happens on Long Island. A Newsday investigation found that traffic crashes killed more than 2,100 people between 2014 and 2023 and seriously injured more than 16,000 people. To search for fatal crashes in your area, click here.
Sam Kmack covers the Town of Islip for Newsday. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California and previously worked as a city watchdog reporter in the Phoenix metro area, as well as an investigative journalist at the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.
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