A 68-year-old man standing on a sidewalk in Long Island City was killed when a car from the Ed Koch Queensboro bridge flew towards him. According to WABC 7, "Police say the driver of the car lost control, flipping onto the sidewalk on Queens Plaza South at Crescent Street just after 4 a.m. Monday." The driver, who was taken to Bellevue, lost his arm; a man who saw the scene and called 911 told the Daily News, "It was a horror movie - pools of blood running onto the street."
The driver, a 35-year-old man, was driving a 2007 Volkswagen, which "slammed into the beauty parlor and the neighboring Espinal's Caribbean Restaurant II before coming to rest in the shadow of Silvercup Studios." The News says, "A police source said investigators had taken a sample of the driver's blood to check for alcohol content, but the cause of the accident was unclear. His passenger, a 31-year-old woman, was also injured.
Yama Dastagirzada, the man who called 911, also told the News, that when he looked at the car, he "saw a hand moving. I was going to try and turn off the ignition but the car was crushed from the top. I couldn't get in. The whole front end of the car was taken off."
