An out-of-control driver \u201ckept hitting the gas\u201d as he plowed down a Harlem street injuring five people and critically wounding two others Thursday night, according to authorities and witnesses.<\/p>\n
A man, 49, driving a Red Hyundai Tucson ran over two male pedestrians and barreled into a parked NYPD cruiser in the area of West 125th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard at around 8:05 p.m., police said.<\/p>\n
Five people were injured, including two critically, when an out-of-control driver plowed down a Harlem street on Thursday night. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n
The driver also appeared to have collided with multiple other vehicles and into a truck, according to witnesses.<\/p>\n
One witness, Jonathan Morillo, told The Post he saw the driver plow into a gray car and into a truck \u2014 sending debris flying into the side of his vehicle.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was like an explosion, the gray car was waiting over here, then the pieces. They flew off, hit my car too, and then ran into the truck over there,\u201d Morillo recalled.<\/p>\n
The injured pedestrians were both brought to local area hospitals in critical condition, while the driver was not injured in the crash, cops added.<\/p>\n
The driver also struck a legally parked NYPD vehicle before it hit the pair of pedestrians. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n
Witness Jonathan Morillo told The Post he saw the driver plow into a gray car and into a truck \u2014 sending pieces of debris flying into the side of his vehicle. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n
Two other people suffered \u201cmoderate\u201d injuries, and another person suffered minor injuries in the chaos, the FDNY said. <\/p>\n
The unidentified individuals were all treated by EMS and brought to area hospitals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was panicked. I was in shock. It\u2019s like I saw everything in slow motion \u2026 everything happened so fast,\u201d Morillo said. <\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of pieces all over the place \u2026 and then the guy just kept hitting on the gas. Like he was trying to escape.\u201d<\/p>\n
An unidentified person of interest was detained at the scene, according to authorities. <\/p>\n
The incident remains under investigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An out-of-control driver \u201ckept hitting the gas\u201d as he plowed down a Harlem street injuring five people and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[254,469,57,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":["post-168921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-car-crashes","tag-harlem","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168921","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=168921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}