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About a half-dozen people stand in a Manhattan street around a black BMW sedan. At least one slaps a hand onto one of the car’s windows as the vehicle edges through the group.
Suddenly, the driver hits the accelerator, and the car surges forward, knocking pedestrians to the pavement as it speeds through the next intersection. It hits more people, some of them on bicycles, with a loud crunch before racing off into the distance.
The collisions left six people injured, and the 52-year-old woman who was driving the car was in custody being questioned late Friday, the police said. Neither she nor a female passenger, 29, were identified, and it was unclear whether the driver would be charged, the police said.