LI Crime Briefs

CENTERPORT/Leandra's Law charge for mother, 39, after crash

A Centerport woman is charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated under Leandra's Law and other charges after she fled an accident with her son, 5, in the car, Suffolk police said.

Police said Jessica Lazarus, 39, was driving a 2010 Dodge north on Centershore Road when she struck a westbound 2005 Toyota at the intersection of Route 25A just before 3:15 p.m. Monday. Police said the Toyota struck a 2010 Jeep stopped for a light on Centershore Road. The drivers went to Huntington Hospital, where they were treated and released. Police said the boy was uninjured and turned over to relatives.

-- JOHN VALENTI

N. MASSAPEQUA/Man saves another from burning car

A passerby put out a car fire and helped save a trapped man after a crash on the Southern State Parkway in North Massapequa yesterday, police said.

The driver of the wrecked car, Allen Jenkins, 55, of Farmingville, appeared to have suffered a medical emergency before the crash on the eastbound parkway between exits 30 and 31 shortly after 9:30 a.m., State Police said. Jenkins drove his 2000 Jeep Cherokee off the road and struck a utility pole, police said. He was trapped in the Jeep, which caught fire.

Police said a passerby, Pablo Lopez, 46, of Franklin Square, grabbed a fire extinguisher from his car and put out the fire. Emergency responders cut Jenkins from the wreckage, police said, and he was airlifted to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow with a broken ankle.

-- JOHN VALENTI