A taxi jumped the curb and struck six pedestrians in Manhattan's Herald Square Monday after its driver had an emergency, police said.
Three victims were hospitalized, including a 9-year-old boy with thigh injuries, a 49-year-old woman with leg injuries, and a 41-year-old woman with head injuries, New York City police said. did. (NYPD) wrote in a statement to the Daily Caller: The remaining three pedestrians refused medical treatment.
The incident occurred near 6th Avenue and West 34th Street around 4 p.m. Police said the 58-year-old taxi driver was also hospitalized, but his condition is stable. No arrests have been made.
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“We were heading just north of the sidewalk and we didn't hear much,” witness Ryan Tucker said. said CBS News. “That's when my wife was hit in the back shoulder. Even though I spun her around, she didn't hit the ground.”
After checking on his wife's safety, Mr. Tucker found the boy trapped under a taxi. When he and other bystanders shook the car, they realized the child's mother was also trapped under it, the paper said. The mother and son were tourists from Australia.
“She was consistent,” Tucker said of the boy's mother. “She was smiling and talking to her son, trying to calm him down.”
“This was the worst holiday ever,” the injured boy told a witness, the paper said. (Related article: 1 person stabbed, 3 shot dead in family dispute at Arizona airport)
