Man and Child Injured After Three-Car Accident on Broadway Updated May 30, 2011 3:16pm

The three-car crash had two blocks of Broadway closed briefly Monday. (DNAinfo/Ben Fractenberg)

By Ben Fractenberg

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MIDTOWN — A man and a child were taken to hospital after an accident involving a black SUV and two cabs Monday afternoon.

Witnesses said the SUV hit the first taxi cab when the driver tried to take a left from West 56th Street on to Broadway heading south just after 2 p.m.

The taxi was then propelled into another cab, witnesses said.

An adult and a child were taken by ambulance to hospital, according to the FDNY.

Broadway was shut down briefly between West 54th Street and West 56th Street, but reopened at 2:30 p.m.

The FDNY and NYPD did not immediately comment.

By Leela de Kretser, DNAinfo.com

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