Auto Accident on State Supreme Court Steps Injures Six
Six people were injured, including the driver of a Nissan Altima that jumped a curb-hitting a fire hydrant and a coffee cart- then pinning a man against a railing on the steps of the New York State Supreme Court-popularly known as the courthouse in the opening scenes of Law & Order. Rescue workers were required to cut through the railing where the 32 year-old injured man was pinned. Among the six injured, some unnamed by police, was the driver of the Nissan; his passenger; a coffee vendor and the man pinned under the railing. Two pedestrians were also injured in the auto accident on the steps of the New York State Supreme Court, according to the New York Times story.
According to one witness, 45 year-old Shawn Dunn, a Sanitation Department worker, on his way to a substation said that the driver was coming ‘pretty quick’ and the scene was very ‘chaotic’.
Lorenzo Bello, of Queens, the 33 year-old driver of the Nissan, was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment and driving with a suspended license and then taken to a hospital where he was listed in stable condition after the New York car accident.
Only four hours later another pedestrian was hit by a taxi in front of the courthouse. The unnamed man was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital, according to the fire department. Twenty-six year-old Luis Gavilanes, a friend of the injured man, said they were both in the area of the courthouse working as laborers at a construction site next to the courthouse. Mr. Gavilanes reported, “I saw my friend fly up in the air and come right down.”
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