A man suspected of drug dealing instigated chaos on the streets of Greenwich Village, engaging in a high-speed pursuit with law enforcement that led to a cyclist being struck and seriously injured, NYPD sources report. The series of events unraveled yesterday afternoon when police, already on the tail of the suspect for his alleged narcotic activities, spotted him seizing a parked vehicle—a black Ford Fusion—and fleeing the scene. According to The Post, it was during this frantic escape that the assailant collided with a 44-year-old cyclist navigating a designated bike lane.
Prior to the impact, with police bearing down on him, the man wrong-way drove through West 3rd Street where the cyclist was adhering to traffic rules within the bike lane. The New York City Police Department recounted that the accident occurred around 3 p.m., with the vehicle striking the cyclist who was catapulted onto the hard concrete—left motionless as the black Ford Fusion sped away, pursued by police. Witness Ariadne Chan-Miller, a 17-year-old local, shared with The Post, seeing the collision, describing, “It seemed like there were cops behind it and the cyclist flew up into the air and then fell down and the car kept going. It didn’t stop or anything. The cop had to stop behind because they didn’t want to run him over.”
Immediately following the accident, the vehicle hammered through further chaos, scraping the sides of an Uber at the crossroads of Mercer Street and Bleecker Street, as recounted by Ariadne's father, Ron Miller, who then contacted the authorities. The cyclist was swiftly attended by paramedics who transported him to NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue in stable condition, suffering from head and leg injuries as stated by the NYPD and corroborated by Gothamist.
After fleeing the scene, the black Ford Fusion was found abandoned blocks away on Prince Street near West Broadway, its windshield caved in, a testament to the reckless abandonment of its temporary possessor. As of the latest reports from the NYPD, the man believed to have caused this disturbance was still at large.
