Three people were hospitalized following a car accident in Van Cortlandt Park on Saturday, Sept. 27, emergency services said.

 

An FDNY spokesperson said the department received a call at 8.37 a.m. for a report of a motor vehicle accident at West Gun Hill Road and Mosholu Parkway on the border of Norwood and Van Cortlandt Village. Meanwhile, a video posted to social media shows around three cars with what appears to be extensive damage to each.

 

The FDNY spokesperson said EMS transported three patients to local hospitals, two to St Barnabas and one to Montefiore Medical Center. They said both their condition and descriptions were unknown.

Norwood News reached out to the NYPD for more information on the circumstances leading up to the collision and will share any information we receive.

 

The NYPD handles all criminal aspects of traffic collisions while NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) monitors the street design at the site of such crashes.

The latest major crime statistics, including traffic fatalities, for the 52nd Precinct, which covers Norwood, and the 50th Precinct, which covers Van Cortlandt Park, as of Sept. 21, are attached.

 

As reported, an NYPD official from the special victims unit told Norwood News on Sept. 15 that the increase in year-to-date rape statistics citywide partially stems from an expanded legal definition of rape to include various forms of nonconsensual sexual conduct. To read some related coverage of the latter topic, click here, here, here and here.

 

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, on X @NYPDTips.

 

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