HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — It was like a scene from a movie.
An SUV went flying off the Southern State Parkway on Sunday morning, over a fence, and then hit a pickup truck before slamming into a parked car.
“The noise, I never heard something like that,” one man told CBS2’s Cory James.
Jessica Restrepo came running out of a house with her family members to help.
“The mom was coming out, crawling out from the windshield. My fiance opened the door then he had the male come out. He dragged him out. He went inside. There was another person that was on top of a baby,” Restrepo said.
Video captured those frantic moments, showing Jonathan Cervantes pulling the baby out of the smoking vehicle and handing the child to the mother, who was on the ground.
“The baby is a boy. I gave him to the mother and she calmed down and then the father got up and was all over the place. He was very disoriented,” Cervantes said.
New York State Police said the accident happened just before 11 a.m. on Old Britton Road in the town of Hempstead.
The woman and baby, along with two other adults, were hurt. One of the adults seriously injured, James reported.
Police said the people inside a black truck that was hit first by the SUV suffered minor injuries.
Neighbors said those men were volunteer firefighters and also heroes.
“They jumped in … seconds,” Cervantes said.
It was an unforgettable rescue, involving multiple people.
State police are still investigating the cause of the crash. So far, there is no update on the four victims.
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from CBS New York https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/08/09/southern-state-parkway-suv-crash-hempstead-long-island/
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