{"id":166684,"date":"2026-03-17T22:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166684\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:02:07","slug":"yellow-cabbie-who-rammed-into-two-women-on-nyc-sidewalk-has-tlc-license-suspended-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166684\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow cabbie who rammed into two women on NYC sidewalk has TLC license suspended: officials"},"content":{"rendered":"

The yellow cabbie who rammed into two women on a city sidewalk<\/a> had her taxi license suspended Tuesday, officials said \u2014 as one of her passengers described his own ride from hell just hours before the harrowing crash.<\/p>\n

The Taxi and Limousine Commission said it pulled 25-year-old Mahamuda Akter\u2019s license as an investigation into Saturday afternoon\u2019s caught-on-video chaos continues.<\/p>\n

Chilling footage captured the runaway cab barreling into pedestrians \u2014 sending both of them to the hospital \u2014 and then smashing through a Lower East Side bodega at around 2:45 p.m., authorities said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was putting lipstick\u00a0on the sidewalk and suddenly a taxi rammed into us out of nowhere,\u201d graphic designer Millicent Faber, 24, who was hurled onto the sidewalk, told The Post on Sunday. <\/p>\n

The scary incident happened on Saturday afternoon. Saiful Islam<\/p>\n

The driver behind the wheel has had her TLC license suspended. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n

Faber said the crash fractured both of her legs, while her 25-year-old friend, who was launched down the basement stairs outside the corner deli, suffered a broken back and a concussion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never thought something like this would happen to me, but I\u2019m happy to be alive,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The cause of the crash remains under investigation and Akter has not been charged.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A passenger who was in the same taxi hours before the crash told The Post that the cabbie was driving erratically even then, turning his morning ride from Battery Park to the East Village into a 30-minute rollercoaster.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never been that unsafe in a taxi, it was crazy,\u201d said Tom, a 29-year-old Manhattan resident, who asked not to be identified using his full name. \u00a0<\/p>\n

He provided photos he took showing his cab\u2019s medallion and license plate number, which matched the yellow taxi that crashed later that day. He also said he recognized his driver as the one captured in the video of the aftermath of the collision.<\/p>\n

Akter was approved for a TLC license in October and had no violations leading up to the crash, a spokesman for the commission told The Post. A DMV official also said that there were no infractions tied to the driver.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe take the safety of pedestrians, the riding public, and drivers extremely seriously, and we are grateful that everyone involved in Saturday\u2019s crash suffered only minor injuries and hope they make a full recovery,\u201d said TLC Press Secretary Jason Kersten in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have suspended the driver after coordinating with the NYPD, which is still investigating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two women were injured, but survived being hit by the cab. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n

Tom, the cabbie\u2019s passenger from earlier on Saturday, said his own ride started going off the rails at around 9 a.m., when he claimed the driver took a wrong turn as she made her way into the Hugh Carey Tunnel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look up and she\u2019s driving into the tunnel that goes over to Brooklyn and I\u2019m like \u2018oh whoa, you\u2019ve taken the wrong turn,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cAnd she\u2019s stopped just before the tunnel and I\u2019m like you can\u2019t stop here, you just got to go through now, you\u2019ve committed, it\u2019s one way.\u201d<\/p>\n

As she drove in the tunnel, Tom claimed the driver looked down at her phone and brushed against the cones that separate traffic on the roadway \u2014 before cutting across three lanes as they exited, despite not having her side mirror out.<\/p>\n

Once they reached the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Tom said he asked to get off at exits along the way to find a different ride, but the cabbie kept going, driving onto the Manhattan Bridge while again looking down at her phone for directions and \u201calmost hitting the barrier,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n

When he finally got to his destination, Tom said he refused to pay the $30 fare, telling the cabbie \u201cyou almost killed us\u201d \u2014 but \u201cshe locked the doors and wouldn\u2019t let me out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pair settled on a $20 fare, Tom said, adding that he called 911 to report the alleged reckless driver, and then phoned 311 on Sunday after he found out about the downtown crash.<\/p>\n

The TLC spokesperson said the agency was looking into a 311 report filed Sunday.\u00a0Tom said he spoke a TLC staffer on Tuesday about the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The yellow cabbie who rammed into two women on a city sidewalk had her taxi license suspended Tuesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[254,13358,358,57,9,56,63,65,64,5260,46121,58],"class_list":["post-166684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-car-crashes","tag-driving","tag-lower-east-side","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-taxis","tag-tlc","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}