Several people are injured after a yellow taxi rams into pedestrians in New York

A hero group of up to 20 New Yorkers LIFT up a yellow taxi of two women after the driver jumped the curb and hit them: at least six people are injured, three of them in critical condition

  • Six people were injured when a taxi jumped a sidewalk in Manhattan on Monday
  • It happened just before 1 p.m. on Broadway near 29th Street
  • The taxi collided with a cyclist and jumped the curb, pinning two women
  • Between 15 and 20 people helped lift the women’s taxi
  • All six people were taken to hospital for treatment.
  • Three of the victims were listed in critical condition
  • The taxi driver, who remained at the scene, was also injured in the accident

A group of New Yorkers heroically lifted a cab of two women who had been pinned down by a cab that had just collided with a cyclist, jumped the curb and rammed into several pedestrians in Manhattan on Monday.

Six people were injured in the incident and taken to hospital. Three of the victims are in critical condition.

Police said the taxi driver was turning left around 1 p.m. when the vehicle collided with a cyclist at the intersection of Broadway and West 29th Street in the Flatiron District.

The taxi jumped off the curb and crashed into the sidewalk, hitting several pedestrians. Two women were trapped under the vehicle, police said.

Between 15 and 20 people attempted to lift the victims’ cab in what NYPD Deputy Police Chief John Chell called a “remarkable scene”.

At least four people were injured, three seriously, when a taxi jumped a curb and hit several pedestrians on a sidewalk in Manhattan on Monday

Six of the victims were taken to hospital, three of them in critical condition. The taxi driver, who remained at the scene, is among the injured victims.

Video and photos from the scene in front of Black Seed Bagel and Juice Generation show the taxi on the sidewalk and several of the damaged plant barriers. A mutilated bicycle was left on the cycle path.

The Emergency Management Department advised people to expect traffic delays, road closures and emergency personnel in the Broadway and West 29th Street area. Drivers must find an alternate route.

A witness to the accident told the New York Post that the taxi driver first hit a cyclist, before crashing into the women who were eating at the Black Seed Bagel.

“Everyone rushed over and lifted the taxi from two women stuck underneath. A woman’s legs have disappeared. They were mutilated. One guy took his belt off and tied it around his leg to stop the bleeding,” the witness told the publication.

A second witness told the Post that one of the women had lost a leg below the knee and the second had the majority of one of her thighs missing.

Three people were transported to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition

Three people were transported to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition

A bicycle is mutilated after a taxi crashed on Broadway, jumping a curb, hitting at least five people

A bicycle is mutilated after a taxi crashed on Broadway, jumping a curb, hitting at least five people

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