All 6 victims hurt by yellow taxi van driver outside Manhattan Macy's are tourists

Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News on Dec 26, 2024

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All of the six victims struck by a yellow taxi van driver outside Macy’s flagship Manhattan store on Christmas Day are tourists — including a woman and young child from Australia, police said Thursday.

Visitors from North Carolina and Tennessee were also hurt when the cabbie jumped the curb and slammed into the crowd of pedestrians on W. 34th St. and Sixth Ave. about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The 58-year-old cabbie was heading uptown when he had a medical episode and lost control of the steering wheel.

He veered onto the sidewalk, straight into a crowd there, cops said.

A 41-year-old woman and a 9-year-old boy visiting together from Australia to enjoy the holidays were struck, with the boy suffering a leg injury and the woman left with a head injury.

Medics took both to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell, where they were expected to recover.

A 49-year-old woman was taken to the same hospital with minor injuries. Medics took the cabbie to Bellevue Hospital, where he was in stable condition Thursday. No criminal charges have been filed against him.

The other three tourists struck by the van — another 49-year-old women, a 19-year-old woman and a 37-year-old woman — suffered just bumps and bruises and declined medical attention, cops said.