2023-08-02 07:52:17
It happened in a downtown area of Manhattan. The driver of the vehicle was arrested and it was officially reported that none of the victims of the incident presented a risk of death.
A man escaping from the NYPD aboard a stolen car ran over at least ten people this Tuesday and rammed three other vehicles in the downtown area of Manhattan, as officially confirmed by the Police of that city in the United States.
The episode occurred following 5:00 p.m. on Lexington Avenue and 42nd Street, and the driver, 20 years old and who did not have a driver’s license issued by New York, might be arrested. The victims, meanwhile, did not present a risk of death, according to official information.
The vehicle fleeing authorities in New York also struck three other cars. FDNY Photo
The pursuit was carried out at low speed due to traffic in the area, following a license plate reader at 45th Street and Second Avenue detected the maroon Hyundai unit that had been reported stolen on July 31 in the Bronx .
“He stepped on the accelerator, the bus went by and he crashed into the yellow cab,” a witness told CBS News. In addition, he recounted that following hitting that rental vehicle, the car that caused the incident “went to the sidewalk and hit people in the street.”
Those hit by the car that escaped from the Police in Manhattan were taken to local hospitals. Photo: FDNY
“The incident has no connection to terrorist activity,” the Police clarified at a press conference. For his part, Carlos Nievas, spokesman for that force, commented: “The Hyundai driver ran over a woman on a bicycle. Then he rode the vehicle on the sidewalk and when he entered the intersection between 42nd and Lexington he ran over several pedestrians. He started driving the vehicle in the wrong direction, in Lexington, and collided with another vehicle.”
The New York Fire Department reported that EMS (Emergency Medical Technicians) personnel “transported 10 patients with non-life threatening injuries to local hospitals.”
A week ago, another serious episode shook downtown New York, in the Hudson Yards neighborhood, very close to Madison Square Garden, on 10th Avenue and 41st Street, when part of a crane structure collapsed from the 45th floor of a building under construction and six people were injured.
Several passers-by filmed the exact moment in which the crane cabin caught fire and part of the structure broke in two and fell into the void from more than 100 meters high.
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