Officer Hospitalized After LIE Crash With Ambulance: Police

BRENTWOOD, NY - A Highway Patrol officer was hospitalized after a crash with an ambulance on the Long Island Expressway on Wednesday night, according to Suffolk Police.

A Highway Patrol officer was driving a patrol car eastbound in the HOV lane when he turned on the vehicle’s emergency lights and slowed down to make a U-turn at the break in the median between Exits 53 and 54 at about 8:05 p.m.

As the patrol car was turning, it was struck by a Senior Care EMS ambulance that had been travelling behind it, causing the patrol car to crash into the median.

The patrol officer was transported by Brentwood Legion Ambulance to Stony Brook University Hospital where he was treated for minor injuries.

A female patient in the back of the ambulance was transported by Brentwood Legion Ambulance to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore and treated for minor injuries.

The ambulance driver and the attendant in the ambulance were not injured.