Car Crashes Into Home, Causing Gas Leak And Injuring One: Police

SYOSSET, NY — A woman was injured Tuesday afternoon when the car she was riding in veered off the roadway and slammed into the side of a Syosset home, a Nassau County Police spokesman said.

Police said the couple was traveling along Doone Drive, just off of Woodbury Road, at about 4:35 p.m. when the man driving the car somehow lost control of the vehicle, causing it to leave the roadway. The car appeared to have crashed through a fence and, according to police, hit an area in the back of the house, rupturing a natural gas line.

The woman suffered minor injuries and was transported via ambulance to an area hospital for treatment, police said. No one was injured inside the home, police said.

Firefighters from the Syosset Fire Department did, however, have to shut off the home’s gas and workers from National Grid also responded to the scene to secure the home, police said.

The car hit a gas meter, breaking it in the process, and the home’s chimney was damaged and potentially shifted, according to a Town of Oyster Bay spokeswoman. The homeowners were unable to stay in the home overnight for their own safety because there was no heat and they were urged to contact their insurance company to repair the gas line and stabilize the chimney, she said.