{"id":325877,"date":"2026-08-20T15:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325877\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:30:13","slug":"speeding-corvette-causes-massive-chain-reaction-collision-in-inwood-three-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325877\/","title":{"rendered":"Speeding Corvette causes massive chain-reaction collision in Inwood, three hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"936\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/54EEA68B-D2BE-4310-A2A3-9DD6FAD1C17E.jpeg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"54EEA68B-D2BE-4310-A2A3-9DD6FAD1C17E\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Speeding Corvette causes massive chain-reaction collision in Inwood, three hospitalized 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A chain-reaction collision left three people injured and destruction on a Manhattan street on Thursday morning, with one of the vehicles involved fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A chain-reaction <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/queens-hit-and-run-man-critical-condition-cops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">collision<\/a> left three people injured and destruction on a Manhattan street on Thursday morning, with one of the vehicles involved fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p>At least three vehicles were left completely demolished at the intersection of West 204th Street and Sherman Avenue, with twisted metal and other debris scattered over the sidewalk and roadway. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/index.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Police<\/a> sources say it all happened just after 6:30 a.m. when the driver of a Corvette was seen speeding eastbound on Sherman Avenue. He collided with a Mercedes-Benz, sending the vehicle hurtling through the air and caving in its rear end.<\/p>\n<p>The chain reaction did not end there. The Corvette carried on and struck a 34-year-old man who was walking on Sherman Avenue.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137865385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4C86137D-CF91-4F31-B816-2C500CAEEDDB.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"7008\" height=\"4672\" title=\"Speeding Corvette causes massive chain-reaction collision in Inwood, three hospitalized 2\"  \/>A chain-reaction collision left three people injured and destruction on a Manhattan street on Thursday morning, with one of the vehicles involved fleeing the scene.Photo by Dean Moses <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137865386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/F2459EAC-A63B-4843-AC9B-43BFB97C962F.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5560\" height=\"4457\" title=\"Speeding Corvette causes massive chain-reaction collision in Inwood, three hospitalized 3\"  \/>A chain-reaction collision left three people injured and destruction on a Manhattan street on Thursday morning, with one of the vehicles involved fleeing the scene.Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed to the scene and whisked the injured pedestrian to Harlem Hospital, where they are listed in stable condition. The driver of the Corvette and a passenger were also rushed to Harlem Hospital, where they are expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Mercedes-Benz fled the scene on foot and has not yet been located.\n<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made as of Thursday morning, and the investigation remains ongoing. However, police are looking into the possibility that the vehicles involved could have been racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A chain-reaction collision left three people injured and destruction on a Manhattan street on Thursday morning, with one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5927,122664,25790,75,84,83,8190,9,24,63,103,62213],"class_list":["post-325877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-collision","tag-corvette","tag-inwood","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-sherman-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325877","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=325877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}