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Route 231 and Sunrise Hwy. MCI MVA w/ Medevac
By Photographer Paul Mazza
October 30, 2011
Sunday October 30, 2011 the North Babylon Fire Company was alerted for an MVA by Babylon Central Fire Alarm, after Wyandanch Wheatley-Heights Ambulance 1-20-19 notified them they were involved in a multiple vehicle accident with numerous injuries on Route 231 at Sunrise Highway just before 05:00 hours. The accident involved six vehicles, two taxi's a Ford Explorer, Jeep Wrangler, Kia and the Ambulance. The accident occurred on the overpass after a freak October snowfall and freezing temperatures that caused an ice condition on the road, causing the vehicles to lose control. The Ambulance was transporting a baby and two adults at the time of the accident, they and the two people on the ambulance crew suffered non life threatening injuries. The driver of the Kia and Jeep were the most seriously injured with the driver of the Jeep needing to be airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital by Suffolk County Police Helicopter. Mutual aid ambulances were requested to the scene from the West Islip, Deer Park, Babylon and West Babylon Fire Departments to transport the other injured by ground. North Babylon Chief of Department Folise 1-8-30 was in command of the scene.
