A boom truck somehow collapsed into a Bronx street and landed on top of a vehicle as a woman sat inside, authorities say. Miraculously, she wasn’t badly hurt, even though the heavy machinery flattened her car like a pancake.
Rescue workers pulled the woman, who is in her 20s, out of the car shortly after the 10:30 a.m. crane accident on Jerome Avenue and Bedford Park Boulevard, sources said. They added that she was conscious and alert.
The FDNY said one person was taken to a hospital.
Video posted to the Citizen app showed a heavy emergency response at the scene. Part of what appeared to be a boom truck appeared stretched over the street as firefighters and onlookers stood by. About 29 workers at a nearby construction site were told to leave the premises as a precaution pending a Department of Buildings evaluation.
No other details were immediately available.
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