O'Neill Gives Update On Times Square Crash, Suspect

SO, AS THE MAYOR SAID, THIS IS
PRELIMINARY INFORMATION.
THIS INCIDENT HAPPENED ABOUT AN
HOUR AND A HALF AGO.
WE TALK ABOUT IT EVERY PRESS
CONFERENCE.
WE TRY TO GET AS MUCH
INFORMATION OUT TO YOU AS SOON
AS POSSIBLE.
AT APPROXIMATELY 11:55 AM, A
2009 HONDA ACCORD PASSENGER
VEHICLE MOUNTED THE SIDEWALK ON
7th AVENUE AND WEST 42nd STREET
IN TIMES SQUARE.
THE VEHICLE, OCCUPIED BY A MALE
DRIVER PROCEEDED TO DRIVE AT A
HIGH RATE OF SPEED ALONG THE
SIDEWALK FROM 42nd STREET TO
45th STREET STRIKING A NUMBER
OF PEDESTRIANS ON THE WAY.
THE HONDA EVENTUALLY CAME TO A
STOP ON THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF
WEST 45th STREET, WHERE IT
COLLIDED WITH A METAL STATUE.
ALONG THE ROUTE, THE SUBJECT'S
VEHICLE STRUCK 23 PEDESTRIANS
CAUSING MULTIPLE INJURIES AND
ONE FATALITY.
22 VICTIMS WERE REMOVED TO
LOCAL HOSPITALS.
THE DRIVER, A 26-YEAR-OLD MALE,
IDENTIFIED AS RICHARD ROJAS, A
RESIDENT OF THE BRONX WAS TAKEN
INTO CUSTODY AT THE SCENE.
PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION
REVEALS THAT ROJAS HAS A FEW
ARRESTS AND TWO ARE FOR DWI.
DETECTIVES ARE CURRENTLY
REVIEWING ANY OTHER CRIMINAL
HISTORY FOR THE CHILD -- FOR
THE SUBJECT.
FURTHER INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING
. AT THIS POINT DOES THE MAYOR
SAID, THERE IS NO INDICATION
THAT THIS INCIDENT WAS
TERRORISM RELATED.
COMMISSIONER NIEKRO WILL TALK
ABOUT THE INJURIES.
I WILL TALK ABOUT THE
INJURIES IN GENERAL TERMS.
WE ARE NOT GOING TO TALK NAMES
OR SPECIFIC INJURIES.
WE DID HAVE ONE PERSON WHO WAS
PRONOUNCED AT THE SCENE.
THERE WERE FOUR CRITICAL
PATIENTS REMOVED, TWO TOVELO --
BELLEVUE AND TWO TO ROSEVILLE.
MULTIPLE TRAUMAS, AND MULTIPLE
FRACTURES.
NONE OF THOSE AT THIS POINT
THANKS TO THE FACT THAT THEY
WERE QUICKLY TRANSPORTED TO
THIS HOSPITAL IS LIKELY BUT
THAT DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE
CLEAR.
AND NONE OF THOSE FOUR ARE
RIGHT NOW LIKELY TO PERISH.
OF CONDITIONS CAN CHANGE BUT WE
ARE HOPEFUL THAT THEY WERE
TREATED AND REMOVED QUICKLY,
THAT THEY WILL SURVIVE.
THREE OTHER INJURIES WERE VERY
SERIOUS BUT NOT CRITICAL.
THEY WERE ALSO REMOVED TO LOCAL
HOSPITALS.
15 ARE LESS SERIOUS INJURIES.
WE CALL THEM GREEN TAG
INJURIES.
ALL OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE NOW
BEEN TRANSPORTED TO THE
HOSPITALS AND ARE BEING
TREATED.
ALL THREE NAMES, AGES, OR WHERE
THEY COME FROM RIGHT NOW, THE
-- THERE WAS A LARGE NUMBER OF
RESOURCES ARRIVING HERE QUICKLY
AND THANKS TO THAT, PEOPLE
RECEIVED CARE IN A TIMELY
FASHION.
LET'S TAKE QUESTIONS.
IN THE BACK?
THERE WERE A NUMBER OF
PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE
APPREHENSION.
THERE WERE SOME CIVILIANS
INVOLVED BUT NEW YORK CITY
POLICE WERE ALSO INVOLVED IN
THE APPREHENSION.
AS YOU KNOW, BEING FROM NEW
YORK, WE HAVE A TREMENDOUS
AMOUNT OF POLICE COVERAGE IN
TIMES SQUARE.
RIGHT ON THE CORNER OF 43rd AND
SEVENTH, WE HAD SOME POLICE
OFFICERS.
HOLD ON.
ONE AT A TIME.
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YOU HAVE GOT TO SPEAK UP.
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THE VEHICLE AT THIS TIME, WE
DO NOT THINK IT WAS BEING
PURSUED BY A POLICE VEHICLE.
YOU SAY THIS WAS NOT AN ACT
OF TERRORISM BUT THIS IS THE
KIND OF INCIDENT WE HAVE SEEN
BEFORE.
ARE THERE THINGS THAT SHOULD BE
DONE IN TIMES SQUARE TO PREVENT
THIS?
DAVID, AS YOU KNOW, THE NYPD

O'Neill Gives Update On Times Square Crash, Suspect

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