A police pursuit of a stolen car in Brooklyn turned into a serious motor vehicle accident as the stolen car crashed into an SUV and sent three people, including a pregnant woman, to the hospital early Tuesday morning.
Police first observed the stolen Toyota Corolla when it ran a red light in Flushing, Queens.
After monitoring the driver’s behavior for seven miles into Williamsburg, police saw the driver run two more red lights. The car then crashed into an occupied Lexus SUV and struck a building on the corner of Lee Avenue and Rutledge Street at high speeds.
The driver of the SUV, a pregnant woman, was rescued from her wrecked vehicle, which smashed into a light pole as a result of the collision.
Witnesses told PIX News that quick work by responding EMTs helped save the woman and her unborn baby’s lives.
The driver and passenger of the stolen Corolla were transported to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan unknown conditions.
The driver was pinned into the car and against the building’s fascade, and police needed to pry him out of the car.
Witnesses told PIX News the driver was in “bad shape” when he was taken into the ambulance. But police say he is suffering “non-life threatening injuies.”
The driver has been charged with drunk driving and reckless endangerment.
The police cruiser was not involved in the accident.
“Thank God nobody [pedestrians] got hurt and we hope the lady will be ok,” witness Nachum Gunblatt told PIX News.
(Source: WPIX 11)
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Who was right, the witnesses who told PIX News the driver was in “bad shape” or the police who say he is suffering “non-life threatening injuries”? And by the way injuies is spelled with an r.