Two people were injured and a Farmingdale restaurant was badly damaged after a woman lost control of her car, struck two other vehicles and plowed into the storefront, police said.
According to Nassau County police, a 57-year-old woman was driving a 2023 Hyundai Sante Fe northbound on N. Broadway when she lost control of her car at the intersection of Boundary Avenue.
Investigators said the woman drove through the intersection, hit two cars parked in the parking lot and crashed into the front of the Great Wall Chinese restaurant at 47 Boundary Avenue #4 around 11:20 p.m. Monday.
The woman's car immediately caught fire, and Bethpage firefighters rushed to put it out.
The Subway next door was also damaged in the crash.
A 30-year-old man sitting in a 2017 Ford Mustang was injured in the crash. The second car the woman hit, a 2022 Volkswagen Jetta, was unoccupied.
Both the female driver and the man who was sitting in his car were taken to hospital for treatment.
Their current conditions are unknown.
The Town of Oyster Bay Building Division placed emergency safeguard notifications on both eateries prohibiting anyone from entering the buildings until they can be inspected.
This is the second time in just over a year that a car crashed through the front of the Great Wall Chinese restaurant.
Video from that incident shows metal bollards were not in front of the businesses at that time but have since been installed.
Video from Monday's crash shows the car propped up on the metal bollards potentially preventing more significant damage.
According to the family-owned restaurant's
Instagram page, they reopened last May from that first crash.