Vehicle crashes into Hanukkah celebration

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Fourteen people were hospitalized Thursday after an elderly man lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a Long Island building where a Hanukkah festival was under way, police told CNN.

Some of the injuries were severe, Nassau County Police Officer Patricia Tanksley said. Police said the 78-year-old man's vehicle crashed into a Woodmere, New York, storefront where Chabad of Five Towns was holding its Hanukkah Wonderland event.

Police said the driver, who hit a parked car before going through the storefront, is among the injured. There were no details available for the others.

Hospitals in the vicinity reported receiving adults and children, including two children listed in serious condition.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/25/hanukkah.crash/index.html

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Rescue workers at the scene after a car plowed into a storefront where a Hannukah celebration was taking place.

[snot]

1. except for the need for hospitalizations,

i'd have loved it if a car crash had busted up our family "celebrations."