114th Precinct<\/a> in Astoria and the FDNY responded to a 911 call of a pedestrian stuck in front of 43-17 28th Ave. just before 4:20 p.m. on June 9. Upon arriving on the scene, officers were informed that an 83-year-old motorist who was behind the wheel of a Lexus SUV traveling southbound on 44th Street had made a right turn onto 28th Avenue when the chaos began. <\/p>\nThe elderly driver allegedly swerved to miss a 39-year-old man who walked into the street outside of a marked crosswalk at the intersection, according to authorities. The senior then crashed into a Ford SUV, driven by a 29-year-old woman.<\/p>\n
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Firefighters and EMS responded to the scene and the elderly driver and two pedestrians were transported to Elmhurst Hospital in stable condition. Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n
The Lexus SUV struck the Citi Bike station, jumped the curb onto the sidewalk and collided with a 58-year-old man before slamming into the exterior wall of a laundromat at 43-17 28th Ave., police said.<\/p>\n
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The Lexus SUV crashed into the exterior wall of a laundromat at 43-17 28th Avenue after slamming into a Citi Bike station in front of the building. Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n
The Lexus driver and the two pedestrians sustained minor injuries and EMS transported them to Elmhurst Hospital, where they were listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n
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No arrests have been made, and the investigation remains ongoing. Photo by Ramy Mahmoud<\/p>\n
There have been no arrests or summonses issued and the investigation by the NYPD Highway District\u2019s Collision Investigation Squad remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 83-year-old SUV driver crashed into another vehicle after swerving to miss a pedestrian in Astoria before slamming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[40918,98,100,99,310,69003,9,24,63,28955],"class_list":["post-262480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-114th-precinct","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-daily-newsletter","tag-motor-vehicle-collision","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd-highway-districts-collision-investigation-squad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262480","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=262480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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