Man Hurt After Crashing Into Pole During Police Chase: PD

BRENTWOOD, NY — A man was seriously injured after crashing into a pole while trying to escape police in Brentwood Tuesday night, according to Suffolk police.

An officer tried to pull over a 1992 Honda coupe, being driven by 24-year-old Ardwin Roberto Pena, of Deer Park, on Commerce Drive in Hauppauge at 11 p.m., police said.

However Pena didn't stop and instead sped away in the Honda at a high rate of speed, police said. The officer did not chase the Honda for safety reasons, but alerted Third Precinct officers that the car was heading southbound on Wicks Road, police said.

Pena lost control of his car at the intersection of Wicks Road and Sherman Street and crashed into a utility pole at 11:15 p.m. police said. Emergency Service Section officers and members of the Brentwood Fire Department worked to extricate him from the car, police said.

Pena was transported to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.