By Olivia Scheck
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MIDTOWN EAST — A minivan made a mess on Madison Avenue after colliding with a car in an intersection and careening into the front of a Coach store at the corner of 57th Street before sunrise on Wednesday.
“I didn’t see it, but I heard a loud BOOM," said Jimmy, a coffee vendoer who was manning his bagel and coffee cart on Madison Avenue between 57th and 58th streets at the time of the crash.
The minivan, which was traveling north on Madison Avenue, attempted to beat a red light when it was hit by a yellow car traveling east on 57th Street around 4:50 a.m., according to witnesses.
“The noise was so loud that people from three blocks away came over,” said the coffee vendor, who declined to give his last name.
The green Ford Windstar minivan lost control and crashed head first into the corner of the Coach store, smashing the retailer's front window.
The van's airbag deployed and the driver of the vehicle was unconscious when the coffee vendor and another man approached the vehicle. There was no blood visible in the vehicle, according to eyewitness accounts.
The unidentified male driver of the minivan was taken away in an ambulance to a nearby hospital.
The driver and passenger in the yellow car appeared unharmed. They drove the vehicle away after speaking to police and changing a flat tire, eyewitnesses said.
The minivan was removed from the storefront and towed away around 8 a.m.
