“It is scary, like chills; but thank God, one is fine. One goes out and does not know if he is going to return home”: some witnesses of a car accident happened in Manhattan, between Second Avenue and East 50th Street. .
Horrified and many watching their passage for the rest of the day were the witnesses of the spectacular accident, which was captured on surveillance cameras, when it occurred on Friday morning.
According to the police, a van whose driver lost control of the vehicle collided with another car, a Toyota Camry, which in turn impacted the exterior facility of a restaurant. Fortunately, the business had no diners sitting there.
“Everything was caused very quickly. I only saw the children lying, the man below the little house and that was what I could see. Plus another person who was on 49 and I don’t know what had happened to him but he did not react. I saw that the person, the driver was fine when he got out of the car “, were the words of a passerby who witnessed the collision.
The balance was 8 injured, 6 adults and two minors. The car ran over, in addition to the outside tables of a restaurant, a street fruit and vegetable stall on its erratic journey for more than a block, but according to the Department of Buildings, it did not damage the buildings.
The NYPD explained that the driver experienced a medical episode.
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But in the opinion of some neighbors: “It is very dangerous, even we ourselves are run over by those who sometimes come drugged or I don’t know, they cross themselves”.
Someone else also shared their perspectives: “The chairs are dangerous because they are there in the street and it is very dangerous that it is in the middle of the road.”
For its part, the Police Department indicated that so far they have ruled out carrying out remains in connection with this case.
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