A wrong-way Mercedes driver came within inches of pancaking an NYPD detective before smashing into an Audi and sending it flying into a deli in trendy Brooklyn on Sunday, terrifying footage shows.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old suspect was flooring his white luxury vehicle down Henry street in Carroll Gardens \u2014 just steps away from an NYPD stationhouse \u2014 when he missed a detective by inches and slammed into the other car, police said.<\/p>\n
Surveillance footage shows the debris-riddled aftermath of Sunday\u2019s terrifying crash in Brooklyn. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n
Windows were smashed at the Garden Gourmet Deli and Grill in trendy Carroll Gardens. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n
The other vehicle, a black Audi, was pushed up the curb and sent flying into a corner deli, shattering its windows, according to surveillance footage obtained by The Post.<\/p>\n
The detective who was nearly struck then rushed in to help officers arrest the rogue driver at the scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just heard a huge brake. \u2026 All of a sudden, I saw a car flying and hit my store,\u201d said Khalid Sarsour, the 63-year-old owner of the damaged Garden Gourmet Deli and Grill, to The Post.<\/p>\n
This Audi was struck by the rampaging Mercedes-Benz driver, police said. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ll be able to sleep because of some of the trauma,\u201d the rattled owner said before sweeping up the shattered glass outside his store.<\/p>\n
EMTs transported the Audi driver and a young woman in a passenger seat in the Mercedes to the hospital in stable condition. There were no other injuries.<\/p>\n
Police are still investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wrong-way Mercedes driver came within inches of pancaking an NYPD detective before smashing into an Audi and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20951],"tags":[42881,25604,37598,23,3622,7521,2469],"class_list":["post-53284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mercedes-benz","tag-bodega","tag-brooklyn","tag-car-crashes","tag-crime","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-metro","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}