20-07-2025
Horrifying video shows moment stolen car fatally plows into NYC woman sitting on a bench in crash that left 2 dead
Disturbing video footage shows the horrific moment a stolen car fatally plows into two people in Chinatown on Saturday morning.
The blue Chevy Malibu rams through a traffic median at Bowery and Canal streets in Manhattan around 7:30 a.m. and strikes a 30-something male cyclist and a 63-year-old woman sitting on a bench, shows the clip exclusively obtained by The Post.
3 The woman can be seen sitting on the bench just moments before she was fatally plowed by the stolen car.
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3 The stolen Chevy Malibu then enters the frame, killing two people.
Obtained by the NY Post
The tragic female victim, Mary Kwok, seems to entirely disappear from view after being struck, while the bike-riding man also appears to be obliterated by the impact.
The Malibu, a rental reported stolen, then careens into an empty NYPD van, the chilling footage shows.
The suspected driver of the car, Autumn Donna Ascencio Romero, 23, and her alleged passenger, 22-year-old Kennedy LaCraft, fled the scene but were picked up by cops nearby.
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3 The blue Chevrolet Malibu flew off the Manhattan Bridge, and fatally plowed into the elderly woman and a man on a bicycle, cops said.
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Drugs and alcohol were found in the car.
Romero also has a pending Brooklyn court case from an April 13 wreck that struck a bystander.
