Four victims were pinned under a gray Ford F-150 pickup truck, according to the ABC. Three people are dead and seven others have been injured after a suspected drunk driver plowed his vehicle into a park on New York City’s Lower East Side on Thursday night, police said.
The driver of a gray Ford F-150, Daniel Hyden, 44, struck multiple pedestrians in the park at 8:53 p.m. on Thursday night, police said.
The man was driving eastbound on Water Street when he sped through a stop sign, jumped the curb and crashed into Corlears Hook Park, police said. The pickup truck was on top of four of the victims when authorities arrived. Good Samaritans held the driver until police arrived, authorities said. WABC
Hyden, from Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, has been charged with three counts of driving while intoxicated and one count of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, according to police.
The FDNY worked alongside NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit to remove the patients from under the vehicle, according to authorities.
