Photographer Lynsey Addario was one of the first photographers on the scene after a man in a car left a path of destruction of wounded pedestrians and one person dead in New York City's Times Square.
Up Close With the Times Square Car Crash's First Responders
War photographer Lynsey Addario arrived on the scene with firefighters.
Photographer Lynsey Addario can’t seem to escape scenes of danger and destruction.
While on assignment for National Geographic on Thursday in New York, Addario—who has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Haiti—was photographing a group of firefighters in the West Village when they got an emergency call. Lynsey rode along with them to the scene of a horrific car accident in Times Square.
“They got a call saying there were numerous pedestrians down and a car had run over some number of them," says Addario. "It reminded me of recent terror attacks in France and in Sweden,”
According to authorities, a driver who may have been drunk plowed through a crowd of pedestrians. One person was killed and 23 were injured.
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