Car Crashes, Flips Over on Broadway After Striking Passing Pedestrian

A female pedestrian was injured on Tuesday afternoon when she was hit by a car, which then struck a barrier and overturned on Broadway at 120th Street.
The car was traveling southbound on Broadway just after 1 p.m. when it struck the woman, slammed into the median and flipped, eventually coming to a stop in the center of the road.

“I heard this loud crash and I went over to the window and looked out and there was a car that was flipped over,” Jonah Meyerhoff, GS/JTS ’10 said. “It had hit the median, and there was this woman kind of just lying out in front of the car.”

Police, firemen, and emergency medical personnel arrived and blocked the southbound lanes of Broadway for approximately 30 minutes while they attended to the victim and cleared the wreck.

An officer at the New York Police Department’s 26th Precinct confirmed that a female pedestrian was hospitalized following the crash.