14 injured as car crashes into Hanukkah party in New YorkAn elderly man lost control of his car Thursday and slammed into a building hosting a Hanukkah party for families in a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of suburb, injuring 14 people, police said. The man, 78, hit a parked car before ploughing through a plate glass window of the building where Chabad of the Five Towns, an Orthodox Jewish community organization, was hosting its annual Chanukah Wonderland festival in the town of Woodmere, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) southeast of New York city New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . "There were approximately 150 people in the building, 14 being reported injured, and four of those in serious condition," Nassau County Nassau County is the name of two counties in the United States of America:
The injured, ranging from 18 months to 40 years old, mostly suffered blunt force trauma and were transported to area hospitals, she said. Thursday was the fifth day of the eight-day Jewish holiday
A Jewish holiday or Jewish Festival is a day or series of days observed by Jews as a holy or secular commemoration of an important event in Jewish history. , known as the festival of lights, and the Chabad celebration featured events geared for children. 
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