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QUEENS, New York (WABC) — A man is in custody after a wild police chase in Queens, where a car jumped a curb and slammed into a woman before crashing into a fruit stand.
Law enforcement sources told Eyewitness News that the New York Division of the DEA on Monday, assisted New York State Police in an ongoing drug and weapons investigation.
They say state police began chasing a white Mercedes-Benz through Queens, which struck a woman near 30th Avenue and 33rd Street, crashed into a fruit stand and then ultimately crashed into a parked red minivan in Woodside.
The car was captured on surveillance video as it jumped the sidewalk and took out a parking meter, plexiglass doors and produce. It came so fast that the woman approaching the corner of 33rd Street didn’t have a chance to get out of the way.
Luckily, moments earlier, another woman did have a chance to get out of the way.
A few moments earlier, another woman did have a chance. Video her notice the car on the sidewalk and quickly move as it flies by… and her reaction as he hits the woman on the corner.
Store manager Ahmad Faid could be seen running out to help the injured woman. He then gets a glimpse of the car that hit her, pulls out his phone to call 911 and sees more cars in pursuit.
“I see under cover cars chasing him, two, three cars,” he said. “They flew up the block. But the guy was going mad fast.”
While they waited for the ambulance, workers at an urgent care center helped the injured woman.
“She was conscious, that’s a good thing, she was responding to me well,” urgent care worker Augustin Lardet said.
The victim is expected to recover.
On Monday night, workers were putting up plywood at the 24-hour produce store after cleaning up the trail of debris. The Union Brothers Fruit Market has been here for 50 years.
Tom Kourkomelis is one of the founding brothers.
“What I saw today was really something I never saw in my life,” he said. “I see the car right in front of me pass like 90 miles per hour.”
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The staff back at Union Brothers would love to know who the driver was, and why he would be so reckless toward pedestrians.
“He really caused a lot of damage, but what I’m saying is it’s not the problem. The lady is the problem,” Faid said.
Police took the suspect into custody and were able to recover two weapons and fentanyl pills from inside his vehicle.
Charges are pending for the suspect in what’s described as an ongoing investigation.
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