Bicyclist hit by wrong-way car
A WRONG-WAY driver trying to outrun police near Penn Station slammed into a bicyclist and then hit other cars Sunday night, cops and witnesses said.
The road menace was driving a dark Infiniti recklessly in a parking garage on W. 34th St., between Eighth and Ninth Aves. in Midtown at about 7:30 p.m. when police tried to rein him in on Eighth, cops said.
Instead the driver sped off, turning uptown onto Seventh Ave. and hitting a man on a bicycle, said a food cart worker who saw the horrible accident unfold.
“The guy on the bike flew up and hit the windshield of the car so hard, the whole windshield is broken. But the car just kept going,” said the worker, who declined to give his name. “He hit other cars because he was still going the wrong way. He was just driving through them.”
The driver jumped out of the car and ran off, but was caught on W. 35th St. near Seventh Ave., said police, who also took a passenger into custody.
Medics took the cyclist to Bellevue Hospital in serious but stable condition, an FDNY spokeswoman said.
“Oh, he was bad, he looked so bad. His arms were all broken and his back looked broken, too,” the food cart worker said. “He was bleeding so much from the back of his head . . . and he wasn’t saying anything.”
The damaged car and the battered bicycle remained on the scene late Sunday as police investigated.