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Video Shows Taxi Driver Strike 2 Pedestrians, Crash Into Lower East Side Deli
- At Essex Street and Rivington streets just before 2:45 p.m., a taxi struck two pedestrians and crashed into a deli; witnesses say the driver lost control.
- After the right turn, footage and witnesses say the taxi driver suddenly accelerated and lost control, striking two women on the Lower East Side.
- The victim who fell into the deli’s basement through open sidewalk cellar doors, police said it likely saved her life, Anthony recounted, 'Her friend said, 'Have you saw my friend?' So we tried calling her name and then we heard a little whisper, 'I'm right here. I'm right here,'.'
- The Department of Buildings said inspectors found damage to the glass storefront, an HVAC unit and the cellar door but no structural damage, and deli owner Karim Islam said 'Scary moment for everybody, and the whole neighborhood, the whole neighborhood got together. Everybody helped each other'.
- The FDNY says three people were taken to hospital, and police said no criminality is suspected; the driver, described as a woman in her 20s, has not been charged while investigators continue their work.
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Out-Of-Control Taxi Plows Into Two Pedestrians Outside Lower East Side Store
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A taxi jumped a curb and struck two pedestrians outside a small grocery store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side on Friday afternoon, sending one woman down a basement stairwell and throwing another onto the sidewalk, authorities said. The crash occurred near the corner of Rivington Street and Essex Street when the […]
Shocking video shows one woman being thrown into the basement and the other onto the sidewalk - Miraculously, both survived
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Leaning Left1Leaning Right5Center5Last UpdatedBias Distribution46% Center, 45% Right
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- 46% of the sources are Center, 45% of the sources lean Right
46% Center
C 46%
R 45%
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