Evening at 11 00. Im Shirleen Allicot in for sade. Im bill ritter. A real mystery tonight in brooklyn. Dramatic Surveillance Footage raising all sort of questions. Was there something wrong with the driver . Was it an accident . Was it intentional . Josh einiger is in Gerritsen Beach with the details. We have brand new information. Police now actually have eyewitnesss who reported seeing this car flying down gerritsen avenue this way before it reached the end, making no attempt to stop. At the end of gerritsen avenue is a metal barricade. Police believe he careened in to the water and no one came to look for him for more than a day. Reporter tonight a wrecking crew scooped up the watery remains of the sedan. Long before nypd divers found the drivers body, more than a day they noticed the fence was damaged. Reporter homeowner Chris Gardner noticed something was wrong, a break in temporary fencing blocking a pier still damaged from hurricane. The plywood was damaged but i didnt know why.
Bill ritter. And im sade baderinwa. First, chaos on the streets. A garbage truck losing control slamming into a building with people inside. What caused the driver inside to crash . All this happening in yonkers tonight. Josh is live at the scene. Reporter the demolished garbage truck has been towed away from the scene after a dramatic crash this evening. I heard a loud noise and i went outside. Reporter this garbage truck was on a collision course. Chaos just after 8 00 tonight when the mayor said the city worker at the wheel suffered a medical condition and hurdled off the avenue. He may have had a seizure or something. Were not sure. Small building hosting the car service, where there was the owner. We cant have 60 people out of work. Reporter after 10 00, the crew went through the delicate task of hooking up the massive truck and towing it away from the building. As far as the mayor is concerned, this was pure luck. Everything else here can be replaced. That building can be replace
Miss colombia. For nightline, im david wright in new york. Not just beautiful, but diplomatic. Thanks for watching. Tune into gma tomorrow. As always, were online at abcnews. Com. Eyewitness news a l now, new yorks number 1 news, channel 7 eyewitness news. A teenage girl slashed in the face on the way to school tonight. Face. A new york cop dead tonight. One of six americans killed in a bombing attack in afghanistan. Good evening, everyone, im bill ritter. And im sade baderinwa. First, chaos on the streets. A garbage truck losing control slamming into a building with people inside. What caused the driver inside to crash . Cops say a medical condition. All this happening in yonkers tonight. Josh is live at the scene. Reporter the demolished garbage truck has been towed away from the scene after a dramatic crash this evening. I heard a loud noise and i went outside. Reporter this garbage truck was on a collision course. Chaos just after 8 00 tonight when the mayor said the city medical c
Home and in to the creek below. Now that car could have still been here tonight, had it not been for the homeowner checking on the construction site today and video from his neighbors surveillance camera. This home Surveillance Video shows the dark car speeding down the road monday morning. It wasnt until tuesday afternoon when homeowner Chris Gardner came to check on his house, undergoing repairs from Superstorm Sandy that he and neighbors who captured the video realized something had gone terribly wrong. I noticed the fence was damaged when i saw the video. We talked about it a little bit and i said, its possible that a car could actually still be in there. Reporter and it was. The black honda, seen here, had crack crashed through the construction fence before plunging in to the creek. The nypd harbor unit and scuba pulling a mans body from the submerged car. How could no one have heard the crash. Someone was walking the dog and heard a bang but didnt see it. No visible damage to the
Ened. Well oem is telling me hopefully monday morning. Its caused me headache for drghivers and some that live here here. For some they cant go home until then. People rolled suitcases up 64 street away from their home. Away from what is now a nstruction zone. We saw a couple of bricks fall yesterday, two or three. But that got them thinking reporter three days of hundreds of icks came raining down on t this eastside street, building officials discoffered that more bricks were in danger of falling. Its where this man is the super. Everybody is out. 16 people. We saw the windows being boarded up and we saw a couple of people packing up to leave. Reporter the red cross is here to help those who had nowhere to go. So what work needs to be done . Officials describe a big job and not an easy one. Part that we think may have to collapse and then theyll do a hand demo of all of those bricks. Sohats a timeconsuming labor intensive issue that we have to al with. Reporter in the meantime, street