Driver seriously hurt in Melville crash

A 21-year-old St. James man was seriously injured in a three-car crash in Melville Thursday evening after police said he apparently lost control of his car on Old Country Road.

Myroslav Tovarnytskyy was transported to Nassau University Medical Center with head injuries after the crash, Suffolk County police said. He was admitted in serious condition.

Police said two others, a husband and wife traveling in one of the two other cars involved in the crash, also were taken to NUMC with "non-life-threatening injuries." Two other people, both from the third car in the crash, were unhurt, police said.

Tovarnytskyy was driving a 2008 Ford Mustang eastbound on Old Country Road when he apparently lost control of the car at 5:30 p.m., spinning into oncoming traffic, police said. His car collided with a 2009 Toyota Camry driven by Florence Kovensky, 73, of Verona Drive, Melville. A third car, a 2009 Honda Civic driven by Edison Limones, 24, of North Carolina, also was struck.

Kovensky and her husband, David, 76, were taken to NUMC, police said. Limones and a passenger in his car were uninjured, police said.

All three vehicles were impounded for a safety check.