Car Crashes Subway Pillar, CPR Performed

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Channel: LLN NYC · 2018 · News & Politics

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JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens - At 1:19 am, Tuesday, at Roosevelt Ave & Elbertson St, within the confines of the 115 Precinct, a vehicle crashed into a subway pole. Upon arrival of first responders, they confirmed the person trapped in the vehicle. The victim was extricated in traumatic cardiac arrest. CPR was performed en route to the hospital. Highway confirmed the collision investigation to be conducted | Video Journalist: Adam Balhetchet 

NYPD DCPI: "On Monday, December 25, 2018, at 0119 hours, police responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision at the intersection Elbertson Street and Roosevelt Avenue, within the confines of the 110 Precinct. Upon arrival, officers observed a 50-year-old male inside a vehicle, unconscious and unresponsive, with trauma to his body. EMS responded to the scene and transported the aided male to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he was pronounced deceased. A preliminary investigation reveals that the 50-year-old male operator of a 1991 Honda Civic was traveling westbound on Roosevelt Avenue when he suffered an apparent cardiac episode, failed to maintain control of his vehicle and struck the front of an unoccupied Toyota Rav 4. Further investigation is being conducted by the NYPD Highway District's Collision Investigation Squad."

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