FDNY: 1 dead, 2 seriously hurt in Manhattan crane collapse
PAUL LEYS VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
A crane landed across several parked cars, smashing their roofs, in Lower Manhattan on Friday in New York.
NEW YORK >> The FDNY says one person is dead and two others are seriously injured following a crane collapse in Lower Manhattan.
The accident was reported around 8:25 a.m. Friday in the Tribeca neighborhood. The crane landed across several parked cars, smashing their roofs.
The collapsed metal lattice landed across an intersection and stretched much of a block.
A witness who works nearby says he saw onlookers trying to help a person who was trapped in a car. Robert Harold says he also saw a person lying motionless body in the street.
Further details were not immediately known.
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