Two brothers were trapped in their car after police say they were hit by a van whose driver was high on drugs.

Police say a contractor van slammed into a Dodge Mustang at the corner of North Eire Avenue and East John Street in Lindenhurst around 10 a.m.

The car ended up going through a fence and onto someone's property. A fire crew was called to cut the roof off the Mustang in an effort to get the men out of the vehicle. They were taken to the hospital.

Police say the driver of the van, identified as Artur Haluda, 27, of Mastic Beach, jumped out after the incident and ran away. He was caught a couple of blocks away.

Haluda was charged with driving under the influence of drugs.

Jim Kane says he was walking his dog a half-hour before the incident when he saw the van pull out of his neighbor's driveway.

"The van stops. The guy backs up and he pulls right up next to me and says, 'Can you do me a favor and call my boss and tell him I'm going to be an hour late to the job site?' To which, I said, 'Do I know you?'"

Kane then asked if the driver was on drugs, but the driver took off. When Kane started to follow the van in his own car in order to get a license plate number, he says he saw a Suffolk police cruiser following the van.

Police say they tried to pull over the van near an elementary school, and later came across the crash scene.

The brothers, aged 21 and 24, were in surgery Friday and are expected to be OK, their mother says.