An aged driver crashed his automotive into the water in Brooklyn, touchdown upside in Mill Basin after struggling a medical episode whereas behind the wheel, based on police.
The automotive went off the highway close to the intersection of 56th Drive and Arkansas Drive within the residential neighborhood simply after 12 p.m., based on police.
The 89-year-old man who was driving had some type of medical episode, inflicting him to lose management of the automobile and plow by means of a steel fence at a excessive price of pace, police sources mentioned. The automotive went by means of the garden — which occurred to be one of many solely part alongside the road that does not have a home on it — earlier than plunging into the water of the East Mill Basin.
The automotive was the wrong way up and virtually totally submerged within the water, with simply the tires and a number of the automotive’s undercarriage above the water line.
Emergency crews had been capable of pull the person from the automobile and carry out CPR whereas getting him to an ambulance. A witness informed NBC New York they head a medic say “he has a pulse.” He was taken to Mt. Sinai Brooklyn with crucial accidents.
