Police say one person was
injured after a wild crash left a car in two pieces in Brentwood.
According to police, an
officer attempted to initiate a traffic stop with a car being driven be Ardwin
Roberto Pena in the vicinity of Commerce Drive in Hauppauge around 11 p.m.
Thursday.
Pena
failed to stop and sped away from the scene in the Honda at a high rate of
speed.
The
officer did not pursue the Honda for safety reasons, but alerted other officers
that the vehicle was heading southbound on Wicks Road.
Pena
lost control of the car at the intersection of Wicks Road and Sherman Street, and crashed into a utility pole.
Officers
along with members of the Brentwood Fire Department worked to extricate Pena
from the vehicle.
Pena,
24, of Deer Park, was transported to Southside Hospital with serious, but
non-life-threatening injuries.