Veteran CBS News
journalist Bob Simon was
killed in a car crash Wednesday night in New York City. He was 73.
It
has been confirmed that Simon was a passenger in a Lincoln Town Car livery cab
that rear-ended a Mercedes-Benz and then hit a median while going south on 12th
Avenue at W. 30th Street. Emergency responders arrived at the scene and
assessed that he had injuries to the head and torso; he was pronounced dead at
nearby St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. The 44-year-old driver of the Town Car
was hospitalized at Bellevue in stable condition, while the driver of the
Mercedes was uninjured, according to the NYPD. No arrests were made and the
accident is under investigation.
CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley made the announcement on air in a
special report. "One of the great writers of a generation has passed. Bob
Simon was a journalist of extraordinary courage," he also tweeted.
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