Washington Heights, NY : 2 dead, 4 hurt in Washington Heights crash involving alleged stolen vehicle on Monday, 3rd July 2023
Washington Bridge, New York
Two people are dead and four others were injured in an early Monday morning crash in Washington Heights that flipped one of the vehicles involved onto its side, police say.
The crash happened just before 7 a.m. on West 179th Street and Audubon Avenue.
Video from the scene shows passersby attempting to help, bending down and trying to tend to those trapped in a Hyundai Elantra that struck parked cars and a Jeep before flipping onto its side.
According to police, there were five people inside that vehicle: two of them were pronounced dead and the other three were hospitalized, with one taken to Columbia in critical condition and two taken to Harlem Hospital Center also in critical condition, according to police. One had been ejected out of the car by the force of the crash.
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