One person was killed and 11 others were injured in a wild, multi-car pile-up in Brooklyn Tuesday evening after a van plowed into an FDNY truck, causing a devastating chain reaction, cops said. <\/p>\n
The gnarly crash occurred around 6:45 p.m. when an FDNY vehicle traveling eastbound on Avenue S was struck by a commercial van traveling north on West 11th Street in Gravesend, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
The multi-vehicle crash occurred around 6:45 p.m. when an FDNY vehicle traveling eastbound on Avenue S was struck by a commercial van traveling north on West 11th Street in Gravesend. Kevin C Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n
The FDNY truck then smashed into an Access-A-Ride vehicle, which then plowed into a Lexus SUV, police said. <\/p>\n
A 78-year-old male passenger of the Access-A-Ride van was rushed to the hospital in critical condition and pronounced dead, authorities added. <\/p>\n
Nearly a dozen others involved in the crazy wreck suffered minor injuries. <\/p>\n
Six firefighters, the driver of the commercial van involved in the initial collision, the operator of the Access-A-Ride van, three additional passengers, and the Lexus driver were all taken to local hospitals.<\/p>\n
All 11 who were injured in the chain-reaction crash are in stable condition, police said.<\/p>\n
The FDNY truck then smashed into an Access-A-Ride vehicle, which then plowed into a Lexus SUV. Kevin C Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n
Nearly a dozen others involved in the crazy wreck suffered minor injuries. Kevin C Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n
The 11 injured in the crash are in stable condition. Kevin C Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made, and an investigation remains ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person was killed and 11 others were injured in a wild, multi-car pile-up in Brooklyn Tuesday evening…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":647408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,5303,5416,6525,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-647407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-car-crashes","11":"tag-deaths","12":"tag-fdny","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116209228543808954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647407","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=647407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}