Two men were killed and three others critically injured in Upper Manhattan on Friday after a driver plowed into multiple parked cars and hopped a curb, cops said.<\/p>\n
The motorist, 61, was heading northbound near Amsterdam Avenue and West 109th Street in Morningside Heights when he lost control of a black Mercedes-Benz at around 6 p.m., according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
Two people were killed after a car crashed onto the sidewalk. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n
The driver barreled into two parked cars \u2013 a gray Volkswagen and a brown minivan \u2013 before striking a group of pedestrians on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n
Police believe the crash was not intentional.<\/p>\n
Two of the five men, ages 35 and 46, were killed.<\/p>\n
The driver also crashed into park cars on busy Amsterdam Avenue. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n
The motorist lost control of a black Mercedes-Benz. Christopher Sadowski for NY Post<\/p>\n
A 36-year-old, 44-year-old and a 51-year-old man were taken to St. Luke\u2019s Hospital in critical condition, police said.<\/p>\n
Surveillance footage shown to the Post shows the car flying through the intersection.<\/p>\n
The driver slammed into a van parked in front of a nearby barbershop and then careened into a group sitting outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were killed and three others critically injured in Upper Manhattan on Friday after a driver plowed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":799546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5303,5248,21610,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-799545","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-morningside-heights","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-us-news","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116581824585316711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799545","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=799545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}