Stolen SUV crash in Hell's Kitchen pins moped delivery driver under car
HELL'S KITCHEN - It’s a sight New Yorkers don’t see every day: a delivery worker, pinned underneath a car. Miraculously, the man will live to tell the story.
The NYPD received a call Monday just after 10:00 p.m. reporting a stolen Range Rover.
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Police said a man and woman stole it from a parking garage on 39th St., between 6th and 7th avenues, and then drove off. The man was driving, and the woman was in the passenger seat, investigators said.
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Police caught up with the two suspects just a few blocks away at the intersection of 36th St. and 9th Ave., where they allegedly crashed the SUV into an unoccupied police car, and then struck a 34-year-old man on a moped.
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The man was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition with a lower leg injury.
Witnesses described the car to be traveling at a high rate of speed.
The suspects tried to run off, but police took the man into custody and are expected to formally charge him. The woman got away.