One Dead, 22 Injured In Times Square Car Crash (Photos)

One person is dead and at least 22 others have been injured after a car crashed into a crowd of people in New York City’s Times Square.

A New York Police Department spokesman says the driver of the vehicle has been taken into custody, reports The New York Times.

A spokeswoman for the New York Fire Department says a car struck pedestrians in Times Square at around noon on May 18. The conditions of the surviving victims are not known. 

A maroon Honda Accord drove off the road into a crowd of pedestrians, leaving the car tiled on its driver’s side wheel on the corner of 45th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. The car appeared to have caught fire following the crash.

Law enforcement sources say that the driver is a man in his 20s who has two DWIs on his record, according to ABC News. The driver reportedly attempted to flee the scene before being apprehended and taken into custody.

The story is developing.

Sources: The New York Times, ABC News / Photo credit: Highway Patrol Images/Wikimedia Commons, WABC via ABC News, Reuters via ABC News