STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Two people were taken to the hospital Sunday morning after a car careened into a church in Stapleton, according to police.
The incident was reported just after 10 a.m. at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church on St. Paul’s Avenue and Beach Street, a spokesperson for the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information said.
A Hyundai SUV backed into a Toyota SUV driven by a 41-year-old man before the driver of the Hyundai lost control of the vehicle and crashed through a church fence, the spokesman said.
The Hyundai’s 47-year-old female driver and a 16-year-old passenger were transported by EMS to Richmond University Medical Center in West Brighton with minor injuries, police said.
No other injuries were reported and no criminality is suspected in the incident, according to police.
A woman who answered the phone at the church told the Advance/SILive.com that while the fence and some landscaping were both destroyed, no statues or decorative elements of the building were harmed.
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