Woman falls through bodega’s basement door after cab crashes into her, another woman
By WABC Eyewitness News
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NEW YORK (WABC) — A runaway cab crashed into two women on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
The women had been strolling along Rivington Street near Essex Street when they stopped for a moment and were struck without warning.
“I was eating right next door. Two girls were walking, this cab lost control, hit the two girls. One girl fell to the right of the cab, the other girl fell down through the basement,” said an eyewitness named Anthony.
The force of the impact hurled one of the women down the stairs to the basement outside the bodega.
“It was crazy. I was actually talking to the girl, her name was Dina, in the basement on the other side of the taxi cause her friend said ‘have you seen my friend?’ We tried calling her name and then we heard a little whisper, ‘I’m right here, I’m right here!’ And then we went around the other side and we were talking to her through the basement until we tell the police that that’s where she was at,” Anthony added.
The impact was so loud, workers in a nearby sneaker store were under impression the cab hit their store.
“I thought it was us right here across the street, but nah, I look out, there’s smoke, there’s a car — the deli in the corner, it’s fried,” said the worker.
A woman named Brenna was one of the passengers in the cab.
“We had no idea what happened and then came out, we saw someone was on the ground — someone was under the car,” she said.
There was major damage and no small miracle on Saturday afternoon when a cab crashed into two women and a bodega on the Lower East Side.
The taxi was near Essex and Rivington Streets when the driver lost control.
Witnesses say one woman got knocked over and was lying on the pavement. The other was thrown down the bodega’s basement through the opening on the street. She was not seriously injured.
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