{"id":5807,"date":"2026-05-16T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5807"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:34:00","slug":"tragedy-in-new-york-city-drunk-driver-hits-pedestrians-dead-and-injured-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5807","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy in New York City: drunk driver hits pedestrians &#8211; Dead and injured (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">A <b>drunk driver<\/b> swept a crowd of people outside a barbershop, leaving behind <b>two dead and three seriously injured<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">An unspeakable <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"13\">tragedy with two dead<\/b> and <b>three injured<\/b> unfolded in <b>Manhattan<\/b>, when a car crashed into <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"122\">suspecting pedestrians<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The horrific <b>accident<\/b> occurred Friday afternoon at the intersection of Amsterdam Avenue and W 109th Street. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: 3 Critical After Vehicle Crashes Onto Manhattan Sidewalk, Strikes Group Outside Bar<\/p>\n<p>Three people were critically injured after a driver crashed onto a sidewalk on Amsterdam Avenue Thursday evening, striking a group gathered outside a bar on the Upper West Side&#8230;. pic.twitter.com\/3hEozzifE9<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Oliya Scootercaster \ud83d\udef4 (@ScooterCasterNY) May 15, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">According to police, the vehicle driven by a <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"310\">61-year-old man<\/b> first crashed at tremendous speed into two parked cars and then <b>ended up on a group of people sitting outside a local barbershop<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\"><b>The victims of the deadly crash are two men, aged 35 and 46<\/b>, with one of them leaving behind <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"112\">triple children<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">65-year-old eyewitness David Lawrence described the incident as a &#8220;<b>horror show<\/b>&#8221; adding that <b>the driver was completely out of control and &#8220;ran over&#8221; a man who was trapped under the wheels<\/b>. The <b>three injured<\/b> were taken to <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"369\">critical condition<\/b> at St. Luke&#8217;s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">The <b>61-year-old driver<\/b>, who <b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"28\">was immediately arrested<\/b>, attempted to excuse himself to authorities by claiming he suffered a stroke and lost consciousness. However, official statements and a New York Post report <b>refuted<\/b> him, as he was found to be <b>under the influence of alcohol<\/b> and now faces serious charges of double homicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drunk driver swept a crowd of citizens outside a barbershop, leaving two dead and three seriously injured.<br \/>\nAn unspeakable tragedy with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}