A taxi driver who suffered a doable medical episode slammed into a number of pedestrians — together with a 9-year-old boy — in Herald Sq. Wednesday afternoon, based on police and sources.
The Christmas chaos unfolded exterior Macy’s on thirty fourth Avenue and sixth Avenue shortly after 4 pm, cops stated.
Six victims have been injured, together with two that have been taken to Weill Cornell Medical Heart and one, the kid, who was taken to Bellevue Hospital.
All of them had non-life threatening accidents, sources stated.
Three different have been handled on the scene.
Cops are nonetheless probing the scene of the crash, however it seemed to be an accident.
The visitors incident comes as regulation enforcement businesses around the globe have been on edge this vacation season after an anti-Islam activist plowed his automotive right into a Christmas market in Germany final week, killing 5 and injuring 200.