Traffic & Transit
Taxi Driver Crashes Into Queens Subway Entrance: Video
A taxi driver jumped the curb and crashed into an entrance at the 169th Street F train subway station in Jamaica early Monday, video shows.
JAMAICA, QUEENS — A taxi driver jumped the curb and crashed into a subway station entrance in Jamaica early Monday morning, according to the FDNY and video posted to Citizen.
The cabbie crashed into an F train subway entrance at 169th Street and Hillside Avenue just before 5 a.m., according to the FDNY and video footage from a witness.
Video posted to the Citizen app shows the yellow taxi lodged in the side of the subway entrance, which is closed off by police tape.
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EMS rushed one person to Jamaica Hospital, but it's unclear whether that person was the taxi driver, a Fire Department spokesperson said.
The subway entrance is still closed as workers make repairs, according to MTA spokesperson Andrei Berman. The rest of the station is open.
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No one in the station was injured in the crash, he added.
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