Homeowner says serious crash sent car flying through front yard; Freeport police investigating

Remnants of that bad crash are scattered across a Nassau County neighborhood still this morning. Right, and as people in that community are waking up to the mess, we're trying to figure out exactly what happened here. And New Stoke-Mung Island's Jonathan Gordon is in Freeport getting some answers as that investigation, Jonathan, is underway. Yeah, well, look, you can see behind me some very significant damage here to this property behind me on East Seaman Avenue. I mean, it's substantial. and the homeowner here basically told me that the crash this morning was so significant that the car went through his front yard, took out a majority of his fence right through the front stairs. You can see the damage on the grass here as well where the tire marks were, took out a tree, and the homeowner obviously very shaken up and surprised to see that this morning. This unfolded about 11:45 last night. I want to show you some new video that we have this morning, And you can see from a neighbor, basically, officers running down the block. So they're coming off of East Seaman Avenue. They're making a right down Rutland Road, and they're running out with flashlights. Still no indication exactly at this moment, 100% the scope of that part of the investigation, but obviously a massive scene here that played out in this mostly residential neighborhood. That, again, that video took about 11:45 last night. we were here this morning all the way through five o'clock about 5:15 they started to break down uh the scene so the road shut down this neighborhood shut down for a significant amount of time uh overnight and and so when we got here we'll show you some more video from at four o'clock this morning the car that the neighbor says went through his front yard we uh that was gone already we didn't see it uh but on the other side of the road across the street so diagonally across the street was the other car and it had some significant damage there pretty substantial and you can see right over there to the front end of the car both of those doors opened up and at one point police eventually got onto the flatbed and towed it out of here but again it has been obviously very difficult for a lot of people here in the community trying to figure out exactly what happened trying to assess the situation and I spoke with the homeowner across the street where the car one of the cars ended up pressed against her fence line and this is how she described a bit of the damage there to her front yard. A driveway with glass all over, pieces of a car there, and that's basically it. And so they said they were okay. For the most part, they made out all right, but the investigation still continues. Nassau County Police have told me that they did assist with the investigation last night, but it's still ongoing. Still waiting on information from Freeport Police. We have not gotten it back. We've been in contact with Freeport officials, but we have not received full confirmation on the scope of this investigation, so we're working to still confirm that. We'll bring you an update as soon as we do. We're in Freeport in Nassau County. Jonathan Gordon, News 12. What a scene. Jonathan, thanks so much for the update.