by Sharon Udasin
Staff Writer

A day after an SUV smashed into a glass-plated storefront and plowed through the Chabad Chanukah Wonderland celebration in Woodmere, L.I., members of the Chabad-Lubavitch community were picking up the pieces from the shattering mess that ruined holiday festivities.

Reached in the early hours of Friday morning, CrownHeights.Info editor Ben Lifshitz described the scene Thursday afternoon as one of utter “chaos.”
Frantic parents searched everywhere for their children who had been playing together during the time of the collision, thankful that there were no
fatalities, Lifshitz said. Fourteen people ranging in age from 18 months to 40 were injured in the crash.

Theodore Saretsky, 76, from Atlantic Beach, was heading northbound on Broadway when he lost control of his blue BMW X3. The car rammed a parked
vehicle onto the sidewalk and then continued into the store, where 150 people had gathered for the annual Chanukah celebration, according to reports from the Nassau County Police Department. Continue reading…