5 Scout Troop Police Hit by Vehicle on Manorville Road, Police Say

Five members of a scout troop were hit by a vehicle while they were walking on a Manorville road Sunday afternoon, Suffolk County police said.

The five scouts, whose age was not released, were taken to the hospital, police said. No information on their conditions or injuries has been disclosed. The Scouts were walking north on David Terry Road when a vehicle "hit several of them" at about 13:55, police said in a statement.

The detectives of the seventh brigade of the department are investigating. The police did not immediately provide information about the driver of the vehicle.

Sean Bryan, 37, of Manorville, said he drove north on David Terry Road Sunday afternoon and saw more than a dozen Scouts walking with adults.

"I saw them right away when I drove, they were not hard to see, in my opinion," said Bryan, a carpenter who spoke to Newsday at the scene several hours after the crash. He showed a reporter his phone diary stating that a 911 call had been made at 13:53. "They were walking in the street as you should if you do it, to the traffic, to the traffic in the opposite direction."

Bryan, who said he made a statement to the police, said he did not see the vehicle, described as a white car, hit the scouts. He also witnessed the immediate consequences of what he said was "chaos". ground. He added that the driver of the vehicle that struck the scouts had remained on the scene.

"One of the children was unconscious, the other was suffering a lot and was crying," said Bryan.

Manorville's chief fire chief, Chris Lindberg, said that when the department responded to the accident, "the children were on the ground". He had no other information on the extent of the injuries.

The Manorville Community Ambulance Corps. and the Suffolk police were already there and no one needed to be removed from a vehicle, he added.

Lindberg testified that he spoke to a troop leader and that the fire department transported the uninjured scouts to the Manorville Fire Station on Silas Carter Road "so that parents would not have to go to the scene of the fire. Accident to recover them. "

Lindberg said some Scouts had backpacks that needed to be transported to the fire department.

Representatives of the Suffolk County Scout Council, based in Medford, did not respond to messages asking for comments on Sunday.

Residents near the accident site, who had been cordoned off with yellow tape, said the area was known for speeding despite its speed limit of 30 miles per hour.

"At the weekend, this area becomes a nightmare; motorcycles and hot cars run up and down, "said Paul Gotowski, 70." It's really amazing. In fact, we pray that it rains on the weekends.

Gotowski, who was watching football when he heard ambulances outside his home, said he complained to the police and elected officials to make speed in his street and nearby from Mill Road for years, without success.

"Why should something terrible happen before doing something?" said Gotowski, who is retired. "They can not send one [police car] to sit here and try to prevent something like this? That's so frustrating. "

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