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Dramatic Car Crash Video Shows Pedestrian Hurtling Through Air

By  Eddie Small and Gwynne Hogan | April 1, 2015 8:02pm | Updated on April 1, 2015 8:09pm

CLAREMONT — Dramatic video of a Bronx car crash shows a pedestrian flipping through the air after being hit by a taxi, then skidding 30 feet across the street before coming to rest by a curb on East 170th Street.

[WARNING: The following video may be disturbing.]

 

Accidente ocurrido en la 170 y grand concourse frente a mi bodega

Posted by Junior Papi Sanchez on Saturday, March 21, 2015

Manuel Quiñones, the video's 55-year-old victim, was hit by a green taxi cab about 6:20 p.m. on March 20 and is now fighting for his life in Lincoln Hospital, according to his 34-year-old daughter Jillene Quiñones.

Two other pedestrians, 5-year-old Tierre Clark, and Kadeem Brown, 25, were killed when the same taxi jumped the curb a block away. Tierre's 39-year-old mother was also injured in that crash, police said.

The cab driver, whose name has not been released by the police or the Taxi and Limousine Commission, has temporarily lost his license, but he has not been charged criminally. The NYPD said police are still investigating the crash.

Meanwhile, Jillene Quiñones said she has been at the hospital every day since the accident.

"I can't sleep. I can't eat," she said. "This is still surreal to me."

She described her father as a man with many friends, who loved clothes and salsa dancing.

On the Friday of the crash, Manuel Quiñones had visited Larimar Restaurant & Bar to read the paper while eating his typical chicken lunch, his friend Jose Mendez said.

As a late winter snow fell on the Grand Concourse, he stopped to buy a lottery ticket before heading to the dry cleaner to pick up clothes.

"He lived there," his daughter said, adding that he was such a clotheshorse he would take items off their hangers after getting them home from the dry cleaner and iron them.

Originally from Loiza, Puerto Rico, Manuel Quiñones, has lived in The Bronx for 32 years, usually working odd jobs. He had just started to work selling fruit and had previously worked delivering food in Midtown and at a bodega on 170th Street.

Jillene Quiñones said she is used to taking care of her father.

"He was like my father [and] my son," she said. Occasionally, she gave him money when he needed it.

Her father has not shown brain activity since the crash, she said, making the last several weeks extremely emotional.

"Yesterday, the decision was should I pull the plug or should they put tubes in his stomach and throat," she said. After she decided on the procedure, he came down with pneumonia and the operation could not be performed.

"Instead of getting better, he's getting worse," the daughter said.

Meanwhile, a memorial service was held Wednesday for Brown at the Mount Carmel Pentecostal Church on White Plains Road on Wednesday. Friends remembered the 25-year-old as an aspiring chef and a ladies' man.

His mother, Marcia Johnson, 53, was dressed in white and carried a bouquet of white roses for her son.

"He was a beautiful person inside and out," she said.

The family of the 5-year-old Tierre declined to comment.