Crime & Safety

2 Hospitalized After 87-Year-Old Woman Crashes Car Into 7-Eleven

A customer was pinned against the cash register counter after the car crashed through the store on Wednesday afternoon.

WEST BABYLON, NY - Two men were hospitalized after a car crashed into a 7-Eleven in West Babylon on Wednesday afternoon, Suffolk Police confirmed.

The crash was reported at the convenience store at 915 Straight Path at about 3:15 p.m.

An 87-year-old woman drove a 2006 Hyundai Sonata through the front window of the store, pinning a male customer to the cash register counter.

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The customer and a male employee inside the store were transported to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip. Both suffered non-life threatening injuries, police said.

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