MANHATTAN — A cyclist was seriously injured by a drunk driver with a revoked license who tried to flee police near Penn Station on Sunday night, police and DMV officials said.
Raheem Addison, 28, whose blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit, was driving erratically inside a parking garage on West 34th Street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, about 7:30 p.m., an NYPD spokesman said.
Police tried to stop him, but Addison drove off, turning left onto Seventh Avenue where he continued against traffic and hit a cyclist, police said.
Addison, who has a long criminal history stretching to 2009, kept going until he stopped on West 35th Street and tried to flee on foot but NYPD officers caught him, police said.
Addison, whose blood alcohol measured .117 percent, was charged with driving without a license, vehicular assault, leaving the scene of a crash and driving while his ability was impaired, police said.
The driver has his license revoked in 2014 after being convicted eight times between 2013 and 2014 for offenses including driving without a license, having an unregistered motor vehicle, driving while drunk and failure to comply with ordinances, according to the DMV.
He still hadn't been arraigned as of Monday afternoon, records show.
The cyclist was initially listed in critical condition at Bellevue, but he'd stabilized by Monday morning, police said.
A man who was in the car with the driver was also take into custody, but later released without charges, police said.
Addison has been arrested 22 times since 2009, though many of those police records are sealed, an NYPD spokeswoman said.
