A savage brawl involving half a dozen people erupted on a Long Island highway after a car crash — with wild footage showing some of the men swinging large wooden sticks.
The violent fracas broke out in the middle of the Sunrise Highway in North Lindenhurst after two trucks crashed Wednesday around 12:35 p.m., officials said.
Three people were arrested.
All of the men involved “are known to one another,” and two of them are relatives that live together, according to Suffolk County Police.
James O’Connor, 19, of Huntington Station was charged with causing and leaving the scene of the accident that left his Toyota Tundra flipped on its side with two children inside, in addition to two counts of assault stemming from the royal rumble.
Patrick O’Connor, 38, of the same address and an unidentified 16-year-old were also charged with two counts of assault.
The footage of the brawl, published by Fox5 NY, begins in the aftermath of the accident, which cops said also involved a GMC Sierra.
It starts with a man winding up to take a homerun swing with a large slab of wood at the shoulder of another man in front of the overturned car outside a Citibank location.
After he connects, the two large men — who are both wearing jeans and black shirts — begin tussling, with the stick-wielding apparent instigator landing several more blows as his opponent sneaks in some punches and deflects some of the attacks.
The fight is briefly broken up by a man in an orange shirt, who then escalates it by grabbing his own wooden stick as another man bum rushes the first target and starts throwing punches.
Meanwhile, an ally of the man under attack from both sides gets out of a white truck and tries to come to his defense.
The group fight — in the middle of one of Long Island’s main thoroughfares in daylight — then splinters into two different skirmishes before rejoining on the median.
Several other men then enter the fray and try to break it up but they fail in de-escalating the wild brawl.
The camera then pans to show a man in a tight tan sweatshirt sporting a goatee delivering at least four hard punches to the head of a man wearing khakis and a black jacket, before a different bruiser comes into the frame and challenges him to another fistfight, scaring the pummeled man off.
After about two minutes of the melee, the fighting simmers down and about a dozen people are seen milling in front of the bank.
The local affiliate reported that several of the brawlers were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
