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14 hurt when car crashes into Hanukkah party

76-year-old driver loses control, smashes through plateglass window

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updated 6:59 p.m. ET Dec. 25, 2008

WOODMERE, N.Y. - An out-of-control car slammed into a building where Orthodox Jewish families were celebrating Hanukkah on Thursday, injuring 14 people, police said.

Nassau County police Officer Patricia Tanksley said the 76-year-old driver lost control of his car Thursday afternoon and slammed it through a plateglass window of the Long Island building.

At least six of the injured were young children and two of them were seriously injured, hospital officials said.

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The families from the Chabad Orthodox Jewish movement were celebrating Chanukah Wonderland, an all-day celebration with events geared for children, including a fun house and a Chanukah theater. Thursday was the fifth day of the eight-day Jewish festival of lights.

A person who answered the phone at the Chabad offices on suburban Long Island said no one was available to comment. Woodmere is about 25 miles southeast of Manhattan.

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