{"id":36391,"date":"2024-12-26T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=36391"},"modified":"2024-12-26T04:27:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T10:27:38","slug":"taxi-cab-strikes-several-pedestrians-in-nycs-herald-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=36391","title":{"rendered":"Taxi cab strikes several pedestrians in NYC&#8217;s Herald Square"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Three people were hospitalized after a New York City taxi cab jumped the curb and struck multiple pedestrians in Herald Square on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The incident occurred on the Midtown Manhattan sidewalk at 4:03 p.m. as the taxi driver was northbound on Sixth Avenue, a New York City Police Department spokesperson confirmed to ABC News.<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/video\/flying-taxis-moving-closer-taking-off-us-115071234\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There were six pedestrians struck by the cab, and the three individuals that were transported to area hospitals included a 9-year-old boy, and two women aged 41 and 49, according to officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">All of the impacted pedestrians suffered non-life-threatening injuries.<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/waymo-takes-streets-cities\/story?id=113248606\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Officials say the driver suffered a possible medical episode, but the investigation into the incident is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/3-injured-after-taxi-cab-struck-pedestrians-new\/story?id=117108732\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three people were hospitalized after a New York City taxi cab jumped the curb and struck multiple pedestrians in Herald Square on Christmas Day. The incident occurred on the Midtown Manhattan sidewalk at 4:03 p.m. as the taxi driver was northbound on Sixth Avenue, a New York City Police Department spokesperson confirmed to ABC News. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":36392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[31785,31786,28387],"class_list":["post-36391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-cab","tag-pedestrians","tag-taxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36393,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36391\/revisions\/36393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}