SCPD Officer Collides with SUV in Lindy

A Suffolk Police car collided late Sunday afternoon with an SUV on the corner of North Sixth and West John Streets, sending the officer to and the driver of the SUV to .

According to police, the officer was transported to Good Sam with “minor injuries” while the driver of the Jeep Grand Cherokee needed to be medevaced to Stony Brook.

The SCPD helicopter that transported the 65-year-old female driver landed on the baseball field at at about 4:45 p.m., according to witnesses, who’d gathered around the scene. The group included many who rushed from nearby houses to see the spectacle.

Suffolk Police, who identified the driver as 65-year-old Beatrice Green, also told Lindenhurst Patch that she sustained “non-life-threatening injuries, but still needed to be airlifted” to the hospital.

Green was transferred from a ambulance to the helicopter, and airlifted away shortly afterwards.

The SCPD did not identify the police officer.

It was unclear how the accident happened on June 5, but, according to witnesses, the Cherokee “heading west appeared to be flipped over by a Suffolk police car (#115) heading north on North Sixth Street.”

The SUV appeared to have sustained the most damage as it sat on its roof following the crash, while the police vehicle sustained some front-end damage, mainly to the bumper, headlights and hood.

Police did not have any further details how the accident happened, as of Sunday evening, but said it was standard procedure when a police officer is involved in an accident – such as this one or – to send the crime scene unit to investigate.

Scott P. Moore contributed to this story.