April 12, 2008
Car Crashes into Flatiron Subway Restaurant
Just hours after an out-of-control car drove onto the State Supreme Court's steps on Centre Street, another driver had a seizure at 29th Street and Fifth Avenue, crashing into a Subway restaurant at the corner. The incident occurred yesterday afternoon around 4 p.m.
A person inside the building told NY1, "When I stepped out, the car was inside, halfway through Subway. I noticed that the guy was having a seizure, and everybody was trying to get the guy out. And we ended up breaking the guy's window."
Another witness said, "As I was walking by here, this car over here, this Grand Marquis, has actually plummeted through the Subway store window. There was glass shattered everywhere. There was actually a MacBook on the floor in a million and one pieces."
The driver's condition is not known. It does not appear there were other injuries.
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I'm sad for the MacBook.
How does one plummet without falling?
See -- we need congestion pricing!
We're gonna need frickin' bollards and planters up and down the sidewalk so that these seizure prone drivers can smash themselves up at leisure and leave us pedestrians alone!
MFers Against Epileptic Drivers.
3- I disagree. If there was congestion pricing then there would be less cars on the road and more cars going faster. Faster cars = bigger crashes.That car would have entered that subway instead of merely ramming it. Congestion pricing saves lives Note to self - whenever you are in a big accident, just pretend to have seizure and get off scot free.
It did enter it, first of all.
Faster normal combustion engine cars (above 30mph) also waste less fuel...not everyone is driving a hybrid/electric car which is efficient at low speeds.
Looks like the sleeper agents have been activated. This is how it ends. Either we all get mown down by drivers having seizures or we can't use the sidewalks any more because they're all blocked with planters.
Manhattan doesn't need cars. It's tiny. Turn the avenues into parks and we'll all just ride bikes.
This reminds me of the "accident/murder" at the Starbucks on Route 4 in Bergen County (no longer there).
A college professor sat down by the window in one of those comfy chairs that some Starbusck have and just at that moment a drunk driver crashed through the window killing him. After the Restaurant reopened, they put up barriers in front to prevent this from happening again. Kind'a late, if you asked me.
Whenever I went to that Starbucks, I used to get a perverse sense of pleasure by pointing to the new chair in the same spot and retelling that story to whoever was with me. Invariably the person in the chair would move to another spot.
There goes a macbook and the information it carried unless the owner did a backup. Wonder if Jobs will give the owner a new one?
Thank goodness nobody was killed because it could have so easily happened.
Makes you wonder though in this CNN/Fox news world, does the absense of a serious injury remove the seriousness of the incident?