Police are on the hunt for a the driver of a van they say left the scene of an accident that hurt five people on Church Avenue Friday morning.
The five pedestrians, including a Taxi and Limousine Commission enforcement officer who was pulling illegal livery cars over at the time, were hurt when a so-called “dollar” van struck a blue Chrysler sedan parked along Church near Utica Avenue.
Following the crash, the van sped from the scene, witnesses said.
The city employee had seized the Chrysler and a different van during a routine enforcement operation. She had parked the vehicles on Church Avenue near Utica Avenue, when the van suddenly smashed into the sedan, sending it sprawling over the curb and into the people on the sidewalk, said a TLC spokesman.
Firemen and emergency medical technicians arrived at 7:43 am, and rushed four people to Kings County Hospital, and the other to Brookdale Medical Center, according to an FDNY spokesman. None of the injuries were life-threatening.
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