Man Intentionally Hits Family With Vehicle at HV 7-Eleven: Police

UPDATE: More details are emerging.Click HERE.

An argument over smoking cigarettes ended with a family of seven being run down with a vehicle, not once, but twice.

ABC NY says the incident happened Wednesday afternoon at a 7-Eleven in Haverstraw. An employee of the Central Highway 7-Eleven told ABC and police that the father of the family confronted a man who had lit up a cigarette with his five children nearby. This is when, according to reports, the man became very heated.

The employee who witnessed the incident said the smoker then got behind the wheel of his vehicle and plowed in to all seven (Update says there were eight family members) members of the family, twice.

Captain Martin Lund of the Haverstraw Police Department said all of the family members were injured and were taken to the hospital, though there are no further details just how badly the family was hurt.

The man who drove the vehicle was arrested. ABC says the vehicle had Texas plates though no one was certain that the man was from out of state.

UPDATE: ABC reports the man is from Washingtonville.

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