T&LC Driver Wrecks Havoc On Lefferts & New York

Around 10:45am at the intersection of Lefferts Ave. & New York Ave. a sound of a loud impact echoed throughout the intersection followed by screeches and screams for help. The scene of the accident looked quite bizarre, a 15 passenger van sitting on the sidewalk nearly in a construction site and 100 feet down the street a crumpled up car sat alone. The driver of the van fled the scene on foot, leaving the other car with its passengers injured.

This incident starts a week ago where Police Officers from a special division of the Police Department called the Safety and Traffic Enforcement Division (STED)
Which drive around in unmarked police cars and pick out the most dangerous drivers. Last week the driver of this van was picked out by officers of this division for driving recklessly and endangering other drivers and had his license suspended.

Yesterday an officer from the STED spotted this van which he remembered suspending its driver of his license, so they began to follow him to see if it was really this same driver, when the van noticed it was being followed he immediately began trying to evade police by trying to speed off, that attempted ended soon after. The van attempted to take a red light and collided head on with a smaller car and from the force of the impact the small car was sent back in the direction it came from, spinning wildly across the entire street.

More pictures in the Extended Article.

The passengers of the small car all sustained various injuries and were transported by FDNY to local hospitals, and the driver of the van got out of the van and fled on foot. Since this driver had a previous encounter with police, they knew him and had dispatched officers to his house where they found and arrested him.