
Driver strikes, injures 9 people on sidewalk blocks from Times Square while trying to escape police
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NEW YORK -- A driver trying to escape police struck and injured nine people on a sidewalk in Midtown Manhattan overnight.
It happened just after 2 a.m. Monday on West 34th Street, just a block away from Penn Station and Madison Square Garden.
Detectives said officers were responding to an unspecified crime on the corner of 33rd Street and Seventh Avenue when they tried arresting a 44-year-old man, who drove away to escape.

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