An unidentified man left one accident on First Street only to crash his green Ford Explorer into a telephone pole outside the Getty Station on Jericho Turnpike in Mineola last Thursday night.

The collision at the telephone pole was so great that it ripped the right front tire off his vehicle, according to eyewitness Angela Cusker.

Cusker was driving down First Street when she first saw the Ford Explorer stopped where it had hit a tree near Winthrop-University Hospital.

Cusker continued making a right onto Herricks Road when she noticed that the same Ford Explorer was driving up behind her.

The directional light on the front passenger side of the Explorer dangled off the car, according to Cusker. "He was swerving all over."

As the Explorer passed her, she looked to see a man dressed in surgical scrubs whose complexion and lips were "milky" white driving the car. Said Cusker, "He was huffing and puffing."

Cusker followed the Explorer trying to take down the license plate number.

"He could have hurt a lot of people," said Cusker, the mother of small children.

She estimated that the vehicle must have been traveling at speeds greater than 50 mph as it outdistanced her while she pursued.

The Explorer cut through the BP Station on the corner of Herricks Road and Jericho Turnpike and traveled east on Jericho Turnpike until ramming into the telephone pole in front of the Getty Station.

Gary Katz, of Harry Katz Floor Coverings ran to the window of his store to see the wreckage of the Explorer on Latham Road. He dialed 911 and the Mineola Volunteer Ambulance Corps (MVAC).

MVAC, the Mineola Fire Department and the Nassau County Police arrived on the scene. Within an hour the car was taken to be impounded and the man was handcuffed and taken away by police.