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Two Injured After Car Crashes Into 96th Street 6 Train Station

By DNAinfo Staff on November 22, 2011 1:01pm  | Updated on November 22, 2011 2:05pm

By Serena Solomon and Patrick Hedlund

DNAinfo Staff

UPPER EAST SIDE — A car jumped a curb on the Upper East Side Tuesday and crashed into a brick wall at busy subway entrance, injuring the driver and a pedestrian on the sidewalk, authorities said.

The black Infiniti sedan hopped a curb at the southeast corner of East 96th Street and Lexington Avenue about 11:30 a.m. and slammed into a wall connected to the 96th Street 6 train station, police and fire officials said.

The pedestrian and driver, both women, suffered injuries in the incident and were taken to area hospitals, police at the scene said. One of the women suffered a minor leg injury and was taken to NYU Hospital, fire officials added.

Police at the scene said another car was involved in the crash, but that the driver of the vehicle stayed at the scene.

An employee at a Starbucks across the street said customers told her the Infiniti driver was heading south on Lexington Avenue and attempted to make a turn east onto 96th Street when she crashed into a brick planter connected to the subway entrance.

A man operating a food cart at the intersection rushed over to help and said the driver emerged from the car bleeding from her nose.

"She was using a GPS," said the man, Mohamed Avougrisha, 27, adding the car had Maryland license plates.

"I asked her to lie down, but she said, 'I can't, I can't. My back.'"

A neighborhood worker who sometimes sits on the wall the car crashed into breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the damage.

"I normally sit on that bench and read the paper," said Moises de Sousa, 37, of Astoria, Queens. "Thank goodness today I didn't."