Two people were struck and a car wound up smashed into the front of a bank branch in a Monday morning wreck at a busy Philadelphia intersection.
The crash happened around 6:45 a.m. at 15th and Spring Garden streets in the Spring Garden section of the city.
NBC10's Randy Gyllenhaal heard the crash and rushed to the scene to find a man on the sidewalk leaning against a building being treated by medics for what appeared to be leg injuries and two smashed up cars. A maroon Buick sedan had crashed into the front of a Citizens Bank location at the corner, while a white Hyundai SUV and a trail of debris could be seen on the street.
Police didn't immediately say exactly where the pedestrian was when he was struck. His condition wasn't known.
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Police said a second pedestrian was also struck, but never got details about that person's injuries.
Both drivers were treated at local hospitals in stable condition, police said. a women who was riding in the Buick also was hurt and treated in stable condition.
The SUV was already gone by the time police accident investigators got to the scene, police said Monday afternoon.
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Witnesses said one of the drivers appeared to have run a red light. However, police didn't reveal that in their report.
The drivers both said to police investigators that it was a T-bone crash.
The 42-year-old SUV driver said that he was driving eastbound on Spring Garden when the Buick driver turned in front of his car causing him to T-bone the sedan and send it into the bank, police said. The 24-year-old Buick driver said he was turning left off spring Garden onto 15th Street when he was struck.
The exact circumstances around the crash remained under investigation Monday.
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