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Police: Medical Condition Caused Woman To Crash Into Sag Harbor Post Office

Publication: The Southampton Press
By Colleen Reynolds   Nov 15, 2012 4:05 PM
Nov 20, 2012 11:36 AM
A 50-year-old Sag Harbor woman likely was suffering from a medical condition late last Thursday morning, November 15, when her SUV jumped the curb and plowed into the side of the Sag Harbor Post Office building, bashing in a brick wall.

The driver—whom police declined to identify, citing the likely medical condition—was airlifted to the hospital, but no one else was injured, Sag Harbor Village Police said. She was parked in a 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer in the post office’s lot on Long Island Avenue shortly before 11:40 a.m. when she revved the engine after putting the car in drive, instead of going in reverse to back out of her parking space, Detective Jeff Proctor said.

The motorist, whom police believe might have had a stroke, seizure or heart attack, was airlifted via... more

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