As always were online 24 7 on our Nightline Facebook page it happened in a flash. New video tonight of an out of control car jumping the curb. He flips over and then kills an innocent man who was just walking down the street. Good evening at 11 00. Im bill ritter. And im sade baderinwa. The victim never even saw it coming. The grizzly scene unfolding in flatbush, brooklyn tonight. Lucy yang is there with new details. As you can see behind me, the car has now been righted and is waiting to be towed. Weve obtained dramatic video tonight. This as accident investigators try to determine exactly what went wrong to cause a driver to lose control and a pedestrian, a 50yearold man, to lose his life. Boom, like an explosion. Reporter these surveillance videos from various angles show the horrible accident. You see a man innocently talking on his phone. Seconds later a car, airborne, crashes in to him, lands upside down on the sidewalk. A few feet behind him this woman survives and seconds later
Lucy yang is there with new details. As you can see behind me, the car has now been righted and is waiting to be towed. Weve obtained dramatic video tonight. This as accident investigators try to determine exactly what went wrong to cause a driver to lose control and a pedestrian, a 50yearold man, to lose his life. Boom, like an explosion. Reporter these surveillance videos from various angles show the horrible accident. You see a man innocently talking on his phone. Seconds later a car, airborne, crashes in to him, lands upside down on the sidewalk. A few feet behind him this woman survives and scrambles in to the store. Seconds later Good Samaritans come racing to help. Just ran right in to the tree. Flipped about three times. Flatbush avenue in brooklyn was packed with cars and pedestrians when the drive of this nissan lost control. Were told one pedestrian was killed. Three others including a young child in the car were taken to the hospital where they are expected to survive. Fele
Can get ugly and crazy. I called home and let my husband know that im here and safe. As tea left the building they length of time the building left the building the workers were applauding police, the predator who who barged into the apartment in manhattan and sexually assaulted a woman inside. The terrifying assault happened this morning in the baruch houses on the Lower East Side. Police say the stranger pushed his way into the victims apartment. Sexually assaulted her, and then grabbed her cell phone before running off. From manhattan to new jersey where elizabeth right now. The father of the man who died in the explosion says he had smelled gas in the home on tuesday. He thought the landlord called the gas company and now hes grieving for his son who he says was intelligent young man working to create a better life. He know what is he wants, he literally never looked for any easy way. To make his own life. Young man. Selfothers wuertz several others were hurt including a boy who re
This could have easily been a funeral today. Reporter members who rallied outside city hall this afternoon say new d. O. C. Guidelines will only make jobs more dangerous. Whoever thought getting rid of solitary confinement good idea, you need to pack your stuff up and you need to go. Reporter it took legal action monday, requesting an injunction to put the brakes on rules like no solitary confinement for inmates under 21. You cannot hold someone in a position of power in the new York City Department of corrections and their Main Objective is to assure those correction officers are stabbed on a daily basis, sexually assaulted on a daily basis and nothing happens to them. The bronx District Attorney refuses to prosecute inmates that assault correction officers. Reporter but the bronx District Attorney says so far this year it has charged 308 inmates for assaulting corrections officers, 40 of which are felonies. And the force policy was drafted with recognition from members of staff inclu
Point to even make entry. Reporter crews from several area Fire Departments pumped an estimated 5,000 gallons per minute at every side. Hoping to surround and drown the building thats been abandoned for decades, and concerns over os bes toes and air quality are now being monitored by environmental agencies. Carbon monoxide, organics, hydrogen some fied and sulfur die ox side. Reporter chopper 4 was over the scene where authorities blocked access to streets near the fire. That prompted pattersons department of education to cancel classes at east side high, Roberto Clemente elementary schools, school 11 and 15, as well as madison avenue prek. This photo shows what plans were to restore it and make it a multipurpose venue. Now a crews been put on standby to deal with whats left. It suffered significant damage. And its an old structure to begin with. Its an vacant structure, everythings possible. Reporter a live look now at water still being put on the patterson armory. At one point, we lo