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(Brooklyn - WABC, June 17, 2007) (WABC) -- A frightening scene on a Brooklyn street corner: An out of control livery cab jumps the curbs and mows down three pedestrians including two teenagers.
It happened at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Glenwood Road. That's where Eyewitness News reporter Lucy Yang has the latest.
A bustling Father's Day afternoon suddenly turned into a makeshift triage center out here. A livery cab left the roadway, and barreled into the pedestrians caught on this sidewalk. Witnesses tonight still can't believe the horror that spilled onto the sidewalk and sent three unsuspecting pedestrians flying.
One witness told us he has three kids, and it's certainly not something you want to see on Father's Day.
It was 3:20 on the afternoon, a livery cab heading northbound on Flatbush Avenue somehow lost control by Glenwood Road. It took down a traffic light, a street sign, and then jumped the sidewalk, plowed into several people and finally smashed into the corner of the nail salon.
People and sneakers went flying: A 16-year-old boy and a 51-year-old man were both in critical condition at Kings County Hospital late Sunday. The third victim, a 15-year-old boy, was in stable with a head injury. The livery driver and passenger were also in stable condition.
Witnesses tell me it all happened so quickly, the victims never had that split second to respond much less jump out of the way. Accident investigators were on the scene still late last night, piecing together what happened.
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