A person needed for promoting medicine stole a automobile and barreled right into a 44-year-old bike owner throughout a wild police chase Wednesday afternoon in Greenwich Village, in response to sources and witnesses.
The bike owner was using in a motorbike lane on West third Road and Mercer Road when the reckless, wrong-way motorist smashed into him — sending him flying to the pavement as police intently pursued the stolen car shortly after 3 p.m., sources and witnesses mentioned.
Moments earlier than the crash, the motive force slipped into somebody’s black Ford Fusion as police zeroed in on him for beforehand promoting narcotics, the NYPD mentioned.
“There was a cyclist going the correct way down the street and the car hit the cyclist,” witness Ariadne Chan-Miller, 17, advised The Submit.
“It seemed like there were cops behind it and the cyclist flew up into the air and then fell down and the car kept going. It didn’t stop or anything. The cop had to stop behind because they didn’t want to run him over,” she mentioned, including she heard sirens after which an “immediate impact.”
The bike owner was not shifting and his bike was left mangled, Chan-Miller recalled.
Medics transported the injured sufferer to NYC Well being + Hospitals/Bellevue in steady situation with head and leg accidents, the NYPD mentioned.
After the hit-and-run, the motive force ran a pink gentle close to the nook of Mercer Road and Bleecker Road and “scraped the sides” of an Uber, Ariadne’s dad, Ron Miller, advised The Submit.
“It was going really fast and half of its windshield was knocked in, so I called 911.”
The motive force ultimately stopped and ditched the smashed-in sedan a number of blocks away on Prince Road close to West Broadway earlier than fleeing the scene, cops mentioned.
He was nonetheless within the wind as of Wednesday night time.
The chase got here as police pursuits have surged this yr, leading to multiple automobile crash per day, native outlet THE CITY not too long ago reported.
Further reporting by Jack Morphet
