Three (Maybe five?) people were injured, including one seriously, early this morning after a cab plowed into a crowd in front of an East Village coffee shop, sources said.

Witnesses said that the cab swerved to avoid an SUV that may have run a red light at First Avenue and East 3rd Street, around 1:30 a.m. The cab then hit two bicyclists and crashed into the Bean Coffee Shop, where it mowed down another man.

Note:

Several witnesses noted that the area had been rife with accidents, with one claiming at least four had occurred in the past month because of a new street configuration.

Read the rest here. (via The New York Post)

Hope everyone is ok.

WPIX is reporting one fatality, though that’s not been reiterated by other sources.

More reporting and photos from the scene via E.V. Grieve here.

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