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Wow. Close call on the southeast corner of First Avenue and East Seventh Street just after 4.
Per @wlodarczyk: Watched this happen from across the street. No bystanders hit, amazingly.
Here's another photo via Bill the Libertarian Anarchist...
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... and a few more shots via EVG reader Dillon Krug showing the emergency response...
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So far, there haven't been any reports of injuries...
Updated 5:05 p.m.
This is Bill the Libertarian Anarchist's report of the collision:
"At 4 pm a car traveling north on 1st Ave. (supposedly at a high rate of speed) rammed into a van (not pictured) then spun over and hit the front of the flower-hardware store on the southeast corner of 7th St. and 1st Ave ... Just before I took [the above photo], the paramedics placed the driver (then on a stretcher) into an ambulance. He was mumbling incoherently."
Updated 5:49
This photo via EVG Facebook friend Michael Hirsch shows passersby attending to the driver (in the tank top) ...
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Updated 6:41
NBC New York reports that "one person was taken to Bellevue Hospital in serious but stable condition" ... no mention if this was the driver or a pedestrian...
Updated 10
The Post reports that the BMW, which was heading north up First Avenue, "crashed into a parked van and then careened into" the store.
Saifee executive manager Mike Taheraly said that the plants out front "took most of the impact," and that the accident destroyed some $15,000 in merchandise.
As for the driver: "Witnesses claimed the BMW was speeding, but authorities said there was no criminality in the smash-up."