13-05-2025
'Inexperienced' Teen Driver Gets Into Wild Accident on Long Island
A teen driver in Long Island is incredibly lucky following a hard-to-believe car wreck on Mother's Day.
Officials told News 12 that the 17-year-old driver accidentally accelerated too hard, causing her silver 2008 Jeep SUV to drive through a bulkhead at the Brookhaven Town Marina in Port Jefferson Sunday night.
The car went through the divider and nearly entered the Long Island Sound, but thankfully landed on floating dock.
In a video shared by Brookhaven Town Supervisor Dan Panico on Facebook, you can see the car appearing to get ready to pull into a parking spot when it suddenly lurches forward through the barrier.
"Every day, I wake up and never know what the day will bring," Panico wrote. "Moments ago, an inexperienced driver drove off the Port Jefferson Dock, and luckily onto a floating dock. Thankfully, no one was injured.
"Thank you to our Parks Department, Public Safety and Fire Marshals, and the Suffolk County Police and Fire Departments for the quick response."
Panico added that if not for the bulkhead, the car would have launched into the air, clearing the floating dock and landing in the water.
The Jeep lost its front bumper and the boards of the floating dock were crushed in the mishap, but thankfully, the driver escaped with only minor injuries. She was removed from the scene by firefighters and taken to a local hospital for examination and then sent home.
A "heavy duty tow truck" was requested to remove the vehicle from the dock, according to the Port Jefferson Fire Department, which also posted photos from the accident on its official Facebook page.
You can view those pictures right here.
