{"id":325969,"date":"2026-08-20T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325969\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T17:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:30:39","slug":"corvette-crashes-into-mercedes-then-strikes-pedestrian-in-manhattan-drag-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325969\/","title":{"rendered":"Corvette crashes into Mercedes, then strikes pedestrian, in Manhattan drag race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian was struck by a Corvette whose speeding driver was drag racing with a Mercedes-Benz in upper Manhattan early Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The Corvette driver was zipping east on Sherman Ave. in Inwood when he slammed into the Mercedes near W. 204th St. and then struck a 34-year-old man before coming to a rest after hitting a building.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian was taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/harlem\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harlem Hospital<\/a> in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercedes driver, after being struck, lost control and hit a parked unoccupied moped and then fled the scene, leaving the wrecked luxury vehicle behind.<\/p>\n<p>Police suspect one or both drivers were drag racing.<\/p>\n<p>The Corvette driver and passenger were taken to Harlem Hospital and are also in stable condition. No charges were immediately filed.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercedes driver is still being sought.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian was struck by a Corvette whose speeding driver was drag racing with a Mercedes-Benz in upper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,10,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-325969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325969","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=325969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}