A taxi jumped a curb and struck six pedestrians in Manhattan’s Herald Square on Monday after its driver experienced a medical emergency, police said.
Three victims were hospitalized, including a 9-year-old boy who suffered a thigh injury, a 49-year-old woman who sustained a leg injury and a 41-year-old woman who received a head injury, the New York Police Department (NYPD) wrote in a statement to the Daily Caller. The remaining three pedestrians refused medical treatment.
The incident occurred around 4 p.m. near Sixth Avenue and West 34th Street. The 58-year-old cab driver was also hospitalized and is in stable condition, police said. No arrests have been made.
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“We were coming up northbound right on the sidewalk, didn’t really hear much,” Ryan Tucker, a witness, told CBS News. “That’s when my wife got hit, kind of up on her back shoulder. Sent her spinning, didn’t knock her to the ground.”
After checking on his wife, Tucker spotted a boy pinned underneath the taxi. He and other bystanders rocked the vehicle, discovering the child’s mother was also trapped underneath, according to the outlet. The mother and son were reportedly tourists from Australia.
“She was coherent,” Tucker said of the boy’s mother. “She was talking to her son, smiling, trying to kind of help keep him calm.” According to witnesses, the mother and son were tourists from Australia.
The injured boy told one witness it was “the worst holiday ever,” the outlet reported. (RELATED: Alleged Family Dispute At Arizona Airport Leaves One Stabbed, Three People Shot)
This article was originally published at dailycaller.com
