4 injured after car crashes into Central Islip house

Four people were injured after a driver suffered a medical emergency and crashed his vehicle Thursday morning into a Central Islip house, where three adults were sleeping inside, officials said. 

Suffolk County police said the crash happened at about 11:30 a.m. when the medical emergency caused the male driver to lose control of his gray sedan. He struck a white picket fence outside an East Halley Lane house and then crashed into the front exterior of the home, where a first-floor bedroom was located, according to officials. Three adults were inside.

“They were all sleeping in a bedroom behind the wall,” said Kevin McAtee, the 2nd assistant chief of the Central Islip Fire Department, which responded to the scene along with Suffolk police and the Central Islip Hauppauge Volunteer Ambulance Corps.

Officials said the driver and three adults who were in the home were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Wilner Colas, who lives next door, said he heard a loud noise, “like an earthquake.” After he saw the vehicle had crashed into the front of the home, he said he ran inside to attend to his neighbors.

“They were sleeping at the time … they were scared,” he said. “All of them fell down.”

Footage from the scene showed the vehicle propped up on the home's front porch with the front of the car pressing through an exterior wall with three windows.

The fire marshal and local building inspector were in the process of evaluating and securing the home Thursday afternoon, McAtee said.

He added, “The building is pretty secure except for the window where the car went through … there was no structural damage, no imminent collapse.”

With James Carbone and Maureen Mullarkey