Police arrested an underage Bensonhurst man on drunk-driving charges after he allegedly blew a red light, slammed his minivan into a police cruiser, and caused a four-car pile-up on 24th Avenue in the early-morning hours of Dec. 28.
The man was driving toward Stillwell Avenue around 4:30 am when he ran a steady red light and hit a transit division police cruiser crossing 24th Avenue at 84th Street, police said.
The driver lost control after the crash, and his van careened into oncoming traffic, where it hit a parked Chevy Trailblazer, knocking the sport-utility vehicle into another parked car, a police report states.
Emergency responders took the two people in the minivan and the two police officers in the cruiser to Lutheran Medical Center, officials said. One officer suffered injuries to the mouth and the other to the leg, a police report states. The minivan driver got a gash to the head, and the passenger’s legs were hurt, police said. All four are in stable condition, according to officials.
Police gave the 20-year-old man a sobriety test and charged him with driving recklessly under the influence, failing to obey a traffic signal, and underage drinking, court records show.
