Truck Driver Killed In 5-Car Bronx Crash, Police Say

THE BRONX, NY — A truck driver died after he jumped a curb in The Bronx Thursday afternoon and caused a chain-reaction crash involving five vehicles, police said.

Atlas Banks, 67, was making a left turn onto Randall Avenue from Coster Street when his Freightliner tractor trailer rolled onto the sidewalk and hit a utility pole, according to the NYPD.

The truck hit a 2007 Dodge Caravan and then a 2000 Ford pickup as it kept going west on the sidewalk, police said. The latter collision caused a chain reaction, with the pickup slamming into a Dodge Caravan which then hit a Toyota Camry, according to the NYPD.

Cops responded to the scene in the Hunts Point neighborhood just before 3:45 p.m. and found Banks unconscious, police said. The Milton, Delaware man was taken to Lincoln Hospital and pronounced dead there, the NYPD said.

A passenger who was sitting in the Dodge Caravan that Banks's truck hit was taken to the same hospital for neck and back pain, police said. The other three vehicles were unoccupied, the NYPD said.

Police say the NYPD's Collision Investigation Squad is probing the crash.