Crime & Safety

Two Injured In Three-Car Crash, One Car Set Ablaze

Glass and car debris strewn throughout the Woodside Avenue and Route 112 intersection following Thursday night crash.

Two people were reported seriously injured in a three-car crash at the intersection of Route 112 and Woodside Avenue on the border of Patchogue and Medford Thursday night.

Of the three cars, a white SUV was fully involved and on fire, while the other cars were collided into, said Bill Hart, first assistant chief of the Medford Fire Department. Hart said the accident was called into the department around 9:44 p.m., and that the fire was under control by around 10 p.m. 

Hart said that the two people seriously injured were hospitalized an at unnamed hospital.

Traffic was directed away from the intersection during the investigation, which was full of glass and car debris.

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A cause of the crash has yet to be determined, polie said. 

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