Actor Carrie Bernans was among those hurt on New Year\u2019s Day when a driver fleeing police plowed into an outdoor dining area at a New York City restaurant, injuring several people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bernans, 29, an actor and stuntperson in “Black Panther,” “The Color Purple” and “Luke Cage,” was knocked unconscious and penned under a bus in the hit-and-run, her mother said on social media and a GoFundMe campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bernans sustained broken bones, fractures and chipped teeth and required emergency surgery, according to the information posted Tuesday on her Instagram account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bernans, the mother to an 8-month-old, is unable to breastfeed her son \u201cdue to the medications she is currently taking to subdue the pain between her surgeries,” wrote her mother, Patricia Lee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite her injuries, Bernans said on GoFundMe that she is “filled with hope and faith in the unfolding of a beautiful new chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAmidst the chaos of the New Year\u2019s incident, I\u2019m holding on to an immense sense of gratitude for life itself,\u201d Bernans wrote on GoFundMe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
New York police said that before the crash, officers were responding to a report of physical assault by a 44-year-old male driver against his 34-year-old female passenger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers tried to get the driver to park, but he fled and ended up driving on the sidewalk, where he “struck a food cart and two 39-year-old female pedestrians, a 31-year-old female pedestrian, and a 29-year-old female pedestrian,” police said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The driver also struck two parked cars and a vehicle in the road. Two officers and the passenger were also injured, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their conditions and identities were not provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The driver was then taken into custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n