Crime & Safety
Woman Charged With DWI After Crashing Into Ambulance In Bay Shore: PD
A 26-year-old patient was being loaded into the ambulance when a woman crashed into it early Sunday morning, police said.
BAY SHORE, NY — An Islip woman was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated after crashing into an ambulance that was preparing to transport an injured man in Bay Shore early Sunday morning, Suffolk County police said.
An injured 26-year-old Islip man was being loaded into the back of an Islip Fire Department ambulance on Main Street, just east of 3rd Avenue, at approximately 2:15 a.m. when a 2017 Honda Accord struck the ambulance, police said.
The ambulance had its emergency lights activated at the time of the crash, police said.
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A second ambulance was dispatched to transport the patient to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, police said. No other injuries were reported.
Third Precinct officers determined that the driver of the Honda was intoxicated and arrested her at the scene, police said.
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Edith Cairo, 32, of Islip, was charged with driving while intoxicated, police said.
Cairo was held overnight at the Third Precinct and was scheduled to be arraigned Sunday at First District Court in Central Islip, police said.
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