Three Men Pulled From Burning Car After Drunk Driver Crashes on Sunrise Highway: Police

Three men were pulled from a burning car that a drunk driver crashed into a concrete divider on Sunrise Highway in Islip Terrace early Saturday, Suffolk Police said.

According to police, 27-year-old Jon Moser was driving a 2008 Nissan south on Craig B. Gariepy Avenue when he failed to negotiate a turn onto the Sunrise Highway North Service Road at 3:36 a.m.

Officers from the Emergency Service Section saw the crash and responded along with officers from the Third Precinct and Highway Patrol Bureau, police said. The vehicle caught fire and Highway Patrol officers Jonathan Abrams, Richard Gandolfo and John McCrory, with the assistance of a good Samaritan, pulled all three men out of the vehicle.

Firefighters from the Islip Terrace Fire Department extinguished the fire.

Moser, of Shirley, and one passenger, John Alver, 21, of Mastic, were transported to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. The other passenger, Richard Weaver, 24, was transported to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.

Moser was charged with DWI and is scheduled for arraignment at a later date.

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