A 5-year-old girl and a 25-year-old man were killed and two others were hurt were hurt when a taxi crashed, jumped a curb and plowed into a crowd of people waiting for a bus in the Bronx, authorities say.
Tierre Clark, 5, and Kadeem Brown, 25, were both killed when the green cab, which had first hit a parked car about a block away, jumped a curb and slammed into pedestrians at a bus stop on Grand Concourse in Claremont Friday evening, the NYPD says.
The cab hit three people and pinned one person under its wheels. Brown was pronounced dead at the scene, while Clark died at a hospital a few hours later. A 55-year-old man who had also been hit remains in critical condition, and the fourth victim, a 39-year-old woman, is in stable condition.
"It was frantic, very scary," said witness Ronald Luis. "Never seen anything like it."
Police say the cab was driving in a service road travel lane when it hit the parked car, a Subaru. The impact took off that car's driver's side door clean off. No one in either vehicle was injured.
It's not clear if Friday's weather played a role in the crash.
Police say the cab driver remained on scene and there are no charges pending at this time.
