Two people died after a car smashed into a tree on Long Island, police said.
Investigators are still on-scene and the victims have not been identified, according to the Nassau County Police Department.
The sedan veered off Old Country Road, near Zeckendorf Boulevard, jumped the curb, went over the sidewalk and slammed into a tree on the grassy median, around 11:55 a.m., Sunday, witnesses told the Post.
It appeared that a woman and a small child were killed instantly and a man in the car was taken by ambulance to a Westbury-area hospital, witnesses said.
Police shut down the thoroughfare from Zeckendorf Boulevard to Eastgate Road for the investigation.
There did not appear to be any skid marks at the scene, near the entrance of The Source Mall, where it appeared the driver had been switching into the right lane to turn toward the shopping center before the car went off the road.
“It sounded like an explosion, a big boom,” said Vajay Shah, 58, who manages the Fortune Smoke Shop and Convenient Store across the street from the crash. “We jumped. I looked out and saw one car piled into the tree and the people were all crowding around it tyring to pull the people out. They couldn’t get the doors open. They were stuck. No one inside the car was moving.”
Ambulances, police and firefighters responded within minutes, he said.
“I saw them bring the child out,” Shah added. “I couldn’t see much because they wraped so many things around the child, but it looked between five and eight years old. I thought it was a boy.”
Police have not confirmed the gender or ages of the victims yet and they do not know what caused the fatal accident.
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