The Brief<\/p>\n
Two pedestrians were killed after an SUV struck multiple people and vehicles in Manhattan.<\/p>\n
Police said the crash happened Friday evening near West 109th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.<\/p>\n
The driver was arrested on manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, vehicular assault and DWI charges.<\/p>\n
NEW YORK – Two pedestrians were killed and several others were injured Friday evening after an SUV struck multiple people and vehicles in Manhattan, according to police.<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
Police said the crash happened around 6 p.m. Friday at the intersection of West 109th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.<\/p>\n
According to the NYPD, a 61-year-old man was driving a 2019 Mercedes-Benz GLC 300 SUV northbound on Amsterdam Avenue when he hit a parked and unattended Volkswagen Jetta about 40 feet south of West 109th Street.<\/p>\n
Police said the Mercedes-Benz continued north through the intersection, drove over a pedestrian concrete island on the northwest corner and struck four pedestrians.<\/p>\n
The vehicle then hit a parked Chevrolet Astro van occupied by a 51-year-old man, pushing it forward and starting a chain-reaction crash involving several parked vehicles.<\/p>\n
Victims identified<\/p>\n
Police identified the two pedestrians killed as:<\/p>\n
Jason Negron, 46, of Manhattan.<\/p>\n
Michael Saint-Hilaire, 35, of Manhattan.<\/p>\n
Both were taken to Mount Sinai Morningside, where they were pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
Injuries<\/p>\n
Police said two other pedestrians, a 44-year-old man and a 36-year-old man, were taken to Mount Sinai Morningside in stable condition.<\/p>\n
The 61-year-old Mercedes-Benz driver and the 51-year-old man inside the Chevrolet van were also taken to the hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n
Driver arrested<\/p>\n
Police identified the driver as Elvin Suarez, 61, of Manhattan.<\/p>\n
He was arrested and charged with:<\/p>\n
Vehicular manslaughter, 3 counts.<\/p>\n
Vehicular assault, 2 counts.<\/p>\n
Driving while intoxicated.<\/p>\n
What’s next<\/p>\n
The NYPD Highway District\u2019s Collision Investigation Squad is investigating the crash.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
This article was written using information from the NYPD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Two pedestrians were killed after an SUV struck multiple people and vehicles in Manhattan. Police said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[91901,64104,75,84,83,9,24,63,103,4159,91744,73121],"class_list":["post-234486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-109th-street","tag-amsterdam-avenue","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-pedestrians","tag-vehicular-assault","tag-vehicular-manslaughter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234486","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=234486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}