May 18th ─ one woman is dead and 2 dozen others are injured after the driver of a car drove up the sidewalk in the middle of Times Square in New York City on Thursday. The car jumped the sidewalk on the west side of 7th Avenue at 42nd Street and slammed into pedestrians for three blocks before crashing at the northwest corner of 45th Street, police said. One person, an 18-year old woman from Michigan, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her 13-year old sister, who was with her at the time, was injured in the incident as well. “Four other people were critically injured after sustaining multiple fractures and traumas”, Daniel P. Nigro, the fire commissioner said.