By Olivia Scheck
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
UPPER EAST SIDE – A Jeep struck an NYPD traffic agent outside Daniel Boulud's eponymous restaurant on East 65th Street just before 11 a.m., witnesses and an FDNY official said.
The car was parked in a no standing zone outside Daniel NYC restaurant at 60 E. 65th St. when an NYPD traffic officer approached the driver to issue a ticket, a police source said.
When the driver saw the officer approaching, he "panicked" and somehow set the car in motion, pinning the officer’s foot under a tire, witnesses and a police source said.
"We heard a scream. We saw that his foot was under the car," said witness Scott Williams, 32.
The driver was issued the ticket for standing in a no-standing zone and allowed to leave the scene, a police source said.
The officer was taken to New York-Presbyterian/Weill-Cornell Medical Center, officials at the scene said.
"He panicked, he was nervous," said a police source, "He didn’t mean any harm."
The NYPD press office did not immediately have information about the incident.
