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Delivery Truck Plows Into Hell's Kitchen Residential Building, Driver Hurt

By  Gwynne Hogan and Ben Fractenberg | April 27, 2015 3:15pm 

 A gourmet food delivery truck rammed through two parked cars and into a residential building on Monday morning, trapping its seriously injured driver inside, fire officials said.
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HELL'S KITCHEN — A gourmet food delivery truck rammed through two parked cars and crashed into a residential building on Monday morning, trapping the injured driver inside, fire officials and witnesses said.

The Baldor Food delivery truck crashed at 11:06 a.m. into a six-story apartment building located at 517 West 46th St, FDNY and witnesses said.

Emergency workers pried out the unidentified man who was trapped inside and then rushed him to Bellevue Hospital in serious condition, fire officials said.

"[I heard a] squeaking loud noise, then boom,” said Zijada Alibasic, 35, who works at the front desk of the building where the crash happened.

Alibasic went out front to see emergency workers placing the injured driver on a stretcher.

“He looked like he was passing out," she said. "He was trying to keep his eyes open.”

Alibasic said she was relieved that no pedestrians had been trapped in the truck's path.

”The Intrepid is down there," she said referring to popular Sea, Air and Space Museum a block away from the site of the crash. "So it's a busy block.”

Just before the crash, the driver had dropped off some goods at KitchenSurfing, a nearby industrial kitchen right across from the site of the accident.

Workers there said that the man appeared fine. Then a few minutes after he left, they noticed a commotion out front and saw his truck lodged into the side of the building.

“We were worried," said Evelyn Garcia, 25, a chef at KitchenSurfing. "We had just seen him.”

Baldor could not be reached for immediate comment.