{"id":83588,"date":"2026-05-16T00:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/83588\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T00:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:16:09","slug":"2-people-critically-injured-after-driver-jumps-curb-on-upper-west-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/83588\/","title":{"rendered":"2 people critically injured after driver jumps curb on Upper West Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were critically injured after a driver jumped the curb on Manhattan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/04\/27\/nyc-withdraws-plans-to-open-ai-focused-high-school-and-close-uws-middle-schools\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Upper West Side<\/a> early Friday evening, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver struck multiple people after losing control and mounting a sidewalk on Amsterdam Ave. near W. 109th St. around 6 p.m., according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were taken to local hospitals in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/05\/14\/lance-garcia-trapped-inwood-apartment-building-fire-died-saving-others-including-mom\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">critical condition<\/a>. It was not immediately clear if there were other injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were critically injured after a driver jumped the curb on Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side early Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[101],"tags":[199,6312,35129,37322,10049,2578,13660,200,1453,14869,14870,38,37320,37321],"class_list":["post-83588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-amsterdam","tag-amsterdam","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-netherlands","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116581380016579570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}