A crash in Bed-Stuy sent five people to the hospital Thursday after an SUV carrying several children slammed into a coffee shop.<\/p>\n
Police said the crash happened just before 6 p.m. at the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and Quincy Street, where an 81-year-old man driving a white Dodge SUV rear-ended a Honda CR-V before losing control and crashing into Ginjan Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n
Witnesses described hearing a loud impact as the SUV barreled into the storefront.<\/p>\n
Inside the Dodge were a 37-year-old woman and four children ranging in age from 3 to 9 years old. <\/p>\n
Surveillance video captured bystanders rushing to help pull the children from the vehicle after it caught fire.<\/p>\n
Two children, a 5-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, were also inside the Honda CR-V that was struck.<\/p>\n
Five people were transported to the hospital in stable condition and are expected to recover.<\/p>\n
The crash caused significant damage inside Ginjan Caf\u00e9, leaving broken glass and debris scattered throughout the business.<\/p>\n
“It broke the table in half, and it went flying all the way to the back,” said co-owner Mohammed Diallo.<\/p>\n
Diallo said the caf\u00e9 had closed only a few minutes before the crash, and no customers or employees were inside at the time.<\/p>\n
“If anyone was in here, it could’ve been fatal,” he said.<\/p>\n
The incident comes amid a string of similar crashes across Brooklyn. <\/p>\n
In the past two weeks alone, four vehicles have crashed into buildings boroughwide, including two in Bed-Stuy. <\/p>\n
The incidents have renewed calls from residents and business owners for additional street safety measures such as barriers and speed bumps.<\/p>\n
Council Member Chi Oss\u00e9 has also called on the NYC Department of Transportation to examine the issue and explore possible safety improvements.<\/p>\n
“Something needs to be done. We cannot wait for things to change on their own,” Diallo said.<\/p>\n
Family members of the mother and two children who were inside the Honda CR-V told News 12 they are shaken and traumatized by the crash.<\/p>\n
Police have not yet determined what caused the 81-year-old driver to lose control of the SUV. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crash in Bed-Stuy sent five people to the hospital Thursday after an SUV carrying several children slammed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-299507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299507","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=299507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}