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Chinatown Car Crash Chaos
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Jen Chung
Published Oct 29, 2004
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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It's bad enough when a driver loses control of a car and the car jumps a curb. But yesterday's crash in Chinatown was filled with terrible things: A Toyota RAV4 SUV apparently hit a curb, blew a tire, and hurtled into a crowd hitting mourners at a funeral and a pregnant woman; the victims have been released from hospitals or are in stable condition (including the pregnant woman). The driver and passenger ran from the car, because mourners grabbed the them from the car and started to beat them (click this link for the NY Times story, which paints a frenzied picture of what it must have been like). NY1 reports that the police said they ran because they feared for their safety. Yeah, Gothamist can say with authority that if you hit a procession of funeral mourners and a pregnant woman, you're a ripe target for vigilante justice.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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