A jeep jumped the footpath and plowed onto a sidewalk in midtown Manhattan within the past hour, hurting at least six person.
One person was brought to hospital when the car barreled onto the 400 block of West 37th Street by Ninth Avenue, near the Lincoln Tunnel, around 6pm Irish time, according to the FDNY.
A shop owner across the street said he saw the “black SUV hit a car and lose control, hitting two more cars before vaulting onto the sidewalk, hitting people”.
Emergency crews are on the scene with frantic actions in case it was some sort of terrorism but they have confirmed that it was a “freak accident”.
Another witness said the pedestrians seemed OK and alert while being attended to by emergency response units, but there was a lot of blood and many people panicking.