Two men were killed and three others critically injured in Upper Manhattan on Friday after a driver plowed into multiple parked cars and hopped a curb, cops said.<\/p>\n
The motorist, 61, was heading northbound near Amsterdam Avenue and West 109th Street in Morningside Heights when he lost control of a black Mercedes-Benz at around 6 p.m., according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
Two people were killed after a car crashed onto the sidewalk. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n
The driver barreled into two parked cars \u2013 a gray Volkswagen and a brown minivan \u2013 before striking a group of pedestrians on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n
Police believe the crash was not intentional.<\/p>\n
Two of the five men, ages 35 and 46, were killed.<\/p>\n
The driver also crashed into park cars on busy Amsterdam Avenue. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n
The motorist lost control of a black Mercedes-Benz. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n
A 36-year-old, 44-year-old and a 51-year-old man were taken to St. Luke\u2019s Hospital in critical condition, police said.<\/p>\n
Surveillance footage shown to the Post shows the car flying through the intersection.<\/p>\n
The driver slammed into a van parked in front of a nearby barbershop and then careened into a group sitting outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were killed and three others critically injured in Upper Manhattan on Friday after a driver plowed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[254,57,12255,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":["post-233433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-car-crashes","tag-metro","tag-morningside-heights","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\/233433","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=233433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}