2-Car Crash on Route 6 in Southeast Sends 7 to the Hospital

A 2-car collision at Routes 6 and 22 in Southeast, near the intersection of I-684, injured seven people, two of them children, Putnam County Sheriff Donald Smith reported.

He said a Toyota sedan traveling east on Route 6 tried to turn left onto northbound Route 22. It was broadsided by a Toyota minivan westbound on Route 6.

A woman in the front passenger seat of the sedan was airlifted to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla with critical but unspecified injuries.

The three other people in the sedan, the man driving and a woman and 4-year-old boy in the back seat, were taken to Danbury Hospital.

The minivan contained two women and a 2 1/2 month-old baby. The baby was ejected from its child safety seat but not from the minivan, police said. All three were also taken to Danbury Hospital.

Their injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, Smith said.

The accident occurred at 12:45 p.m. Route 6 at Star Ridge Road and the off-ramp from 864, at Exit 10, onto Route 22 weren’t reopened until almost 5 p.m., as responders investigated and cleaned up after the crash.

Among those responding were sheriff’s deputies, state troopers, the Brewster Fire Department, the Brewster Ambulance Corps, Carmel Ambulance Corps, Putnam and Danbury paramedics, the Putnam County Bureau of Emergency Services and the LifeNet helicopter.