Three people were killed when a vehicle driven by a New Jersey man, who is said to have written a book about dealing with addiction, crashed into a city park in Manhattan’s Lower East Side during a Fourth of July celebration.
Around nine o’clock on Thursday night, Daniel Hyden, 44, was taken into custody after he allegedly crashed his F-150 into Manhattan’s Corlears Hook Park. The New York Police Department claims that Hyden was driving his vehicle when he jumped the curb and crashed through the park’s barrier, speeding down the road and failing to stop at a stop sign.
According to the NYPD, four persons were discovered trapped beneath the car. The first responders released them. Hyden was stopped from leaving the site by witnesses who pulled him out of the truck.
Local NBC affiliate WNBC reported that Lucille Pinkney, 59, and her 38-year-old son Herman Pinkney, had passed away. According to reports, Hyden’s vehicle struck eleven persons.
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A third person was also slain, a woman whose identity has not yet been made public, according to Fox News.
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Hyden is charged with assault for driving while intoxicated, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, and carelessly causing serious injury with a weapon in addition to aggravated vehicular homicide. The NYPD withheld information on Hyden’s purported lack of a driver’s license.
Hyden has a history of arrests, including one for assault in February of 2015 in New York and one for driving while intoxicated in Wisconsin in 2015.
Hyden writes a book titled “The Sober Addict,” which is billed as “a guide on how to be functional with the dysfunctional disease of addiction,” according to a LinkedIn page. His profile describes him as an advocate “on behalf of all those impacted by the disease of addiction” and as the “Program Director for three residential treatment programs.”
