Passers-by reportedly helped lift the cab off a nine-year-old Australian boy and his mother.
Seven people have been injured in New York City when a taxi jumped a kerb and hit pedestrians outside the Macy’s flagship store after the driver suffered a medical episode, police said.
The boy was visiting from Australia with his mother, NBC New York reported, citing law enforcement sources.Aron Ranen via AP “There was a whole group of us that ripped the fender off, lifted the car back and then that’s when I grabbed the little boy, got him to the corner, realised that what ended up being his mom underneath,” Tucker told ABC7. Tucker said his wife was hit in the back by the taxi but was OK.
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