There are more details about the incident that left a 4-year-old child critically injured in the Bronx yesterday: Though it was initially reported that a livery cab slammed into little Joshua Delarosa and his mother, who were walking to his day care, at 230th Street and Broadway, it turns out the car slammed into a pole (with a pedestrian crossing sign), which then fell onto the boy.
According to the Daily News, which calls it a "freak accident," the livery cab driver blamed his crash on a city DEP truck: "He said the city truck, which was heading north on Broadway, made a left turn onto W. 230th St. and cut him off, forcing him to swerve out of the way." The livery cab driver said, "He was not supposed to turn left. He was supposed to wait for me - I was going straight," adding, "The sign hit the child. Not my car."
However, the DEP truck driver said the cabbie "had enough time to stop." Both men stayed at the scene and neither driver was charged. But residents tell NY1 it's a dangerous intersection, "I almost got hit myself many times, many times," and "These people they don't care. They don't read. They don't look. They just want to drive through." Joshua is in critical condition at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia while his mother suffered cuts and bruises.
