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SUV Crashes Into Manhattan Restaurant

NY Daily News 10/27/2008

An SUV jumped a sidewalk Sunday and crashed into the patio window of a crowded upper West Side restaurant, sending terrified diners diving for cover, cops said.

The gray Honda Pilot carrying a Haitian senator in the U.S. on a hurricane relief fund-raising mission spun toward the Indus Valley restuarant after colliding with a yellow cab about 2 p.m., police and witnesses said.

"The car just came at us," said Kabin Hamal, 21, a waiter from Queens who dove under the bar during the mayhem. "All the glass came flying. People were hiding under the tables."

No one in the restaurant was injured, cops said.

Seven passengers from the two vehicles were treated for minor injuries at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, cops said.

The Honda  shuttling Senator Cemethyse Gilles was headed south on Broadway when it made a left onto 100th St., clipped a yellow cab and spun out of control, cops said.

The SUV shattered the glass-enclosed sidewalk patio of the Indian restaurant, which was bustling with a lunchtime crowd, witnesss and cops said.

Firefighters had to cut off the roof of the SUV to free its passengers, including Gilles, who is in the country on a fund-raising mission for the storm-ravaged country, witnesses  said.

"The outside part of the restaurtant is the only thing that got damaged," said Phuman Singh, 48, the restaurant's owner, as he picked through the glass.

"I'm just glad nobody else was [seriously] hurt."

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