{"id":37444,"date":"2025-07-04T07:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T07:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37444\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T07:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T07:10:11","slug":"6-pedestrians-struck-by-ford-mustang-that-crashed-into-nyc-scaffolding-before-driver-passenger-flee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37444\/","title":{"rendered":"6 pedestrians struck by Ford Mustang that crashed into NYC scaffolding before driver, passenger flee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Ford Mustang plowed into six pedestrians as it crashed into a sidewalk shed in the Bronx before the driver and a passenger hopped out of the muscle car and fled Thursday morning, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>The Mustang first struck a pedestrian as the driver turned onto Courtlandt Avenue from East 149th Street around 10:50 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p>Then the car hit five more people and barreled into scaffolding.<\/p>\n<p>The Mustang hit six people, who suffered injuries.  Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>The front bumper of the car was badly damaged.  Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>All the victims, three men and three women, were taken to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver and passenger fled the crash scene and have not been caught. A description of the pair, including gender, was not immediately provided.<\/p>\n<p>Photos of the crash showed the front bumper nearly torn off \u2014 and no license plates on the front or back of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The driver and a passenger fled.  Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople were yelling, were in pain, so yelling, crying, it was very upsetting,\u201d witness Vivian Cole told <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/car-crashes-scaffolding-melrose-bronx-6-people-hurt\/16935943\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ABC 7.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another bystander, Christina Sieh, was startled by the commotion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought it was a bomb or something, because we are all panicking around here,\u201d Sieh told the station.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Ford Mustang plowed into six pedestrians as it crashed into a sidewalk shed in the Bronx before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5303,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,9366,5305,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-37444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-car-crashes","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-pedestrians","18":"tag-the-bronx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114793717713164037","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}