Update: Driver Who Drove Into Store, Injuring Infant, Arrested

YONKERS, NY — Yonkers police have arrested and charged the driver in the Friday morning car crash that seriously injured an infant girl and her mother.

The Yonkers police department released security video that appears to show a car driven by David Poncurak of Yonkers hitting a parked car, before striking the mom and baby in the street and accelerating, dragging them through a storefront before the car finally comes to a stop inside a barber shop on Lake Avenue.

Poncurak was placed under arrest and charged with DWI, vehicular assault and aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle. He was held overnight in the Yonkers City Jail awaiting arraignment on Saturday.

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The infant suffered a skull fracture and 3rd degree burns on her back and foot in the crash. The 36-year-old mother received a femur fracture and had surgery on Friday. Both the mother and the infant are still being treated, but are expected to survive their injuries. The owner of the barber shop sustained a minor laceration.

No other injuries were reported, according to authorities.

The outcome might have been far worse if two Yonkers police officers, Paul Samoyedny and Rocco Fusco had not happened to be eating breakfast at a nearby bagel shop and witnessed the tragic events unfold. Body camera footage shows the cops rushing to help and finding that the baby was pinned under the car.

Body cam footage shows the cops, with the help of bystanders and the injured shop owner, lifting the car and quickly freeing the mother and child from the wreckage. The police were able to provide critical first aid until EMTs arrived.

“It is always a tragedy when someone is injured by the reckless and criminal acts of another person and that is only amplified when those injured include an infant," Yonkers Police Commissioner John Mueller said in a statement lauding the officers involved. "Luckily, two veteran officers of Yonkers’ Finest just happened to be getting breakfast next door and quickly took action along with members of the community to rescue a child trapped under the vehicle and render aid to her mother. The actions taken are nothing short of heroic. The individual arrested in this incident will now have to face the consequences of his alleged behavior."

Poncurak was detained at the scene of the crash, along with a female passenger in the car. Investigators soon learned the 43-year-old driver had a suspended license. Police also report finding an alcoholic beverage in the car. A blood test was conducted to determine the alcohol/drug content of his blood, according to police officials.

Neither the driver nor the passenger in the car were injured.