Horror in Fresh York’s Times Square as car rams into pedestrians killing one and injuring 22

WARNING – GRAPHIC CONTENT: One woman has been confirmed dead while twenty two were injured in the incident

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• 17:07, eighteen MAY 2017
• Updated Nineteen:45, eighteen MAY 2017

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A car has rammed into pedestrians in Fresh York City’s busy Times Square, with one person dead and twenty two injured.

Richard Rojas, 26, of the Bronx, has been named as the man who drove a maroon sedan at pedestrians, knocking them over near the intersection of 45th street and Broadway.

Rojas, who had two prior arrests for drink driving, was reportedly high on marijuana after telling officers he had smoked the drug earlier today.

Witnesses said the vehicle drove against traffic and on to the sidewalk about noon after injecting the district around 42nd street and driving north.

One woman, Eighteen, died and twenty two people were injured, some critical, authorities have confirmed while describing the incident as “isolated” and not terrorism-related.

Photos from the scene have shown injured people on pedestrian crossings and the sidewalk being treated by authorities and bystanders.

The vehicle is said to have crashed into a pole or bollard before being attended to be firefighters.

A witness stopped the driver from fleeing and with help from another bystander pinned him down and held him for police, a journalist at the scene said.

Shocking photos from the scene showcase Rojas fleeing the car after he ran down and killed one woman, Eighteen, and injured twenty two others.

Wearing jeans and brown t T-shirt, he is shown running across a pedestrian crossing screaming as his vehicle is slammed into a pole behind him.

One person in a crimson T-shirt is on the ground near the vehicle while a horrified woman walks with a little doll just metres from the driver.

Officers and bystanders apprehended him.

The driver appeared to be tipsy or on drugs, the Fresh York Times reported quoting a law enforcement official, adding the man had a history of DWI arrests.

The NYPD closed off the area as the FBI moved in to investigate the incident.

The NYPD tweeted: “One masculine in custody in the Times Square vehicle collision.

“It is believed to be an isolated incident, it remains under investigation.”

A spokesman for the Fresh York Police Department said that the incident was not thought to be terror-related at this time.

“We don’t have details as of yet,” the spokesman said.

“It looks more like an out of control vehicle – a vehicle that lost control than anything else at this point.”

Asked if it was terror-related he said: “This is very preliminary. We don’t have any details yet but on the information that we’ve got so far it looks more like an out of control vehicle at this time.”

Hundreds of thousands of people, many of them tourists from around the world, pass daily through the bustling commercial area, the heart of the Broadway theatre district.

Annie Donahey tweeted: “A car just purposely sped onto the sidewalk in Times Square attempting to hit people.

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