By Carol Tannenhauser
On Sunday around 6:50 PM, a taxi cab, reportedly traveling west at high speed, clipped two parked cars on West 75th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, then flipped over.
The cab driver suffered injuries that did not appear to be serious, according to a Central Park emergency medical worker. There was a passenger, a police officer told the Rag, but he took off. “He didn’t want to get involved with EMS.”
A crowd gathered and stared in amazement at the upside-down car. “It’s like a movie,” someone said. The mood was upbeat as no one was seriously hurt, and it was a beautiful, breezy night before a holiday.
The man whose car was hit by the cab said, “He came flying down the street at 100 miles an hour! I was just turning the wheel to pull out when he hit me, hit the car in front of me, and flipped over. I can’t believe it. I haven’t taken this car out of the garage in 22 years!” It was a “BMW M4, 2000,” he said. His phone rang. “They wasted my M4,” he told someone.
A police emergency vehicle arrived around 6:20pm and, using chains, they dragged the taxi, wheels up, down 75th Street into the middle of Central Park West. Then, again using chains, to the oohs and ahs of the crowd, they flipped it.
The cab driver was taken to Mt. Sinai Morningside. The BMW was pushed back to the curb.
I hope an arrest is imminent.
Driver needs to be locked up.
LOL you guys are obsessed with the police. why do you get off on having the POLICE resolve every problem in the city.
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First, there is no such thing as a 2000 BMW M4. The M4 was introduced in 2014. It might be an M3. It should be noted that ‘M’ series BMWs are street legal race cars, the ‘M’ stands for BMW Motorsport GmbH, ‘M’ series cars are highly tuned racetrack-tested variants of ‘regular’ BMWs. So methinks there may be a rush to judgement here. The person driving a race car who hasn’t driven it in twenty-two years admits that he has ‘just turned the wheel to pull out’. Maybe he was actually pulling out and caused the accident? Maybe the cab was going 100mph. Maybe it wasn’t. That looks like a Toyota Camry hybrid, it takes 8.2 sec to get to 62mph, it’s going to take a lot longer for it to get to 100. Let’s get the videos and the facts before we lock people up.
The M3 is not a “street legal race car.” It’s just a sporty coupe. It makes about 330 horsepower. You can buy a Camry now that almost makes that power. It’s got a stiffer suspension and some fender flares.
It does not have usual race car stuff: racing exhaust, rollcage, seatbelt harness, stripped interior, or aero. A kinda fast regular car is not a “street legal race car.”
This reminds me of “My Cousin Vinny”
Why do people rush to defend obviously unsafe drivers? This sounds like something that OJ’s lawyers would say to try and distract a jury. The cab flipped over! The driver wasn’t doing 25mph.
Go to youtube and look up ‘low speed car flips’. Doesn’t take much. All I’m saying is, we don’t have all the information. Where’s the video? We are willing to take the word of a man who possibly hasn’t driven in twenty years over a guy who actually drives every day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljlZqd5qot4
The owner of the BMW is “a guy who actually drives every day” and the BMW is one of his two cars. It was also in immaculate condition and heavily invested into over many years. That being said, this is a fellow who is both an exceptional driver and someone who really loves cars. Juxtapose that with your ideas of a NYC taxi driver. Suddenly, the picture isn’t quite like you’ve imagined. And still we are ignorant of all of the facts and throwing darts in the dark. Fun times.
Everyone thinks they’re an exceptional driver. I would trust almost anyone before a cab driver though.
Is whether he was going 62 or 100mph important? he was going fast enough to flip his car, and knocked into several cars., that is reckless driving.
i still say jail time.
The point is, we don’t know if the fault lay with him, or if someone pulled out in front of him. Note that the passenger walked away with nary a scratch, and the cab driver was barely injured. PS: You can flip a car at very low speed if it hits a curb or if any number of other things happen. Look it up.
THere’s no damage to the front of the cab, and there’s no damage to the rear, and the door is showing opened with no equipment needed. Have you ever seen what happens to a car that has actually collided with something at 100mph? Or 60? Recall what happened to the passengers in the van on the Palisades Parkway a few days ago.
Passenger gave the wrong answer in the Cash Cab!
Unless that passenger had warrants or something he’s crazy for leaving. Preserve your rights.
My car was one of the cars hit. I hope I can get it fixed.
I hope you have insurance. Maybe buy a new car. 🤔
The passenger leaving as he did, is unusual, I doubt it was about not getting involved with EMT, Im glad no one was badly hurt. But cars don’t just flip. A car in garage 20 years, suddenly getting hit, is also unusual.
Owner of that car is the only one claiming the car was going at 100mph. Something smells funny.
Owner of the BMW is also the only person who was in his vehicle when it was hit so it would make sense that he’d have some idea of the speed involved. The other 2 cars that were hit were unoccupied at the time of impact.
My car was hit. I hope they’ll fix it.
No fear of consequences. All is lost until consequences return to the equation.
The city speed limit is 25 mph. That’s way too slow for an accident to flip a car, so the driver had to be speeding by a lot. And that’s kind of the point.