A cop escorts cabby Mohammed Himon from his taxi on the sidewalk along Sixth Avenue yesterday after a road-rage incident led to a horrific smash into a tourist. (John Figlar)
The wild scene just steps from Rockefeller Center. (John Figlar)
He’s not off the hook yet.
The cabbie who mowed down a pretty British tourist in a road rage accident across from Radio City could face criminal charges, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said today.
“The investigation is going forward. Collisions, accident investigations take some time. It takes some time to do that and reconstruct the scene. We’re looking for video,” Kelly said.
Sources told The Post investigators were already poring over extensive surveillance video from the crash, which happened on the northwest corner of Sixth Avenue and West 49th Street about 11 a.m. Tuesday.
Cops are also interviewing witnesses and gathering all available evidence and could pursue charges including felonies if warranted, the sources said.
The careless cabbie may even lose his job, as the Taxi and Limousine Commission tonight said it has taken the initial steps to revoke his license.
Sian Green, 23, of Leicester, England was munching a hot dog with best pal Keshia Warren when hack Mohammad Faysal Himon, 24, got into a beef with a bike messenger, suddenly accelerated and jumped the sidewalk.
The impact severed Green’s left foot and shattered her right leg. Doctors had to amputate the left leg below the knee, but were able to save her right leg.
So far, Himon has only been issued a summons for not being authorized to use the cab he was driving.
The cab’s unidentified owner was given a pair of summonses, one for allowing Himon to drive his cab and another for a rate violation.
Meanwhile, Green’s devastated family and friends from Leicester were rushing to be by her side at Bellevue Hospital.
Sian’s father Jason Green told the Daily Mail today the family was flying to New York and was expected to arrive some time tonight.
“Her friend Keshia is still in shock. We are a really close family we are all devastated by what has happened, we don’t know what to say … we just want to be at our daughter’s side right now,” he said.
Green’s boyfriend, William Lord, flew back from a vacation on the Mediterranean island Ibiza and is also flying to New York.
At his home in Leicester, his father William Donaghue said his son had spoken to Green on the phone.
“Sian is as upbeat as you can be about this, she is determined to not let this ruin her life,” Lord’s father told the Daily Mail.
Also, three of Lord’s friends from upstate New York visited her today but were refused entry at Bellevue because they aren’t on her list of visitors.
“We play basketball with her boyfriend. We want to see her but they won’t let us because we’re not on the list. She’s all alone. We drove down from upstate,” said one, declining to give his name
The accident happened after a road-rage duel between the hack and bike messenger Kenneth Olivo.
TV’s “Dr. Oz” and two other men — a plumber and a pizza-truck owner — rushed to help Green
Dr. Mehmet Oz and the plumber fashioned tourniquets from a dog leash and a belt to stanch the bleeding, while the truck owner grabbed the severed foot and put it in a hot-dog vendor’s ice cooler.
“It was like a damn movie,’’ said Olivo.
He and Himon, 24, of The Bronx were heading north on Sixth Avenue when the cyclist cut off the cabby, law-enforcement sources said.
Himon, in his yellow cab, chased Olivo to 49th Street, where the cyclist allegedly banged on the taxi.
Himon “wanted to turn, but he didn’t want to wait . . . He wants to be Number 1,’’ Olivo said.
“I told him to calm down . . . He gets angry, he honks his horn, and he accelerates, and that’s it — I’m on the hood of the car, and the woman is under his car . . . He accelerated, because I couldn’t escape him.”
Himon — who has a hack license but wasn’t authorized to drive that particular cab — struck Green with such force that her left leg was severed below the shin, and part of her right leg was left hanging by just the skin.
Green had just arrived with her friend from London on Monday night.
“I feel really, really bad . . . It was a very bad accident,’’ Himon said.
He claimed that “the bike was banging on the back of the car,’’ and when he turned to look, he accidentally accelerated.
“Actually, I can’t even remember it. It happened really quick. I was very upset,’’ the Bangladeshi immigrant said.
“I am praying to Allah for her that she is getting better. Please pray for her and me.’’
David Justino, a union plumber whom Oz hailed as a hero, said, “I was hoping she would pass out. She was in a lot of pain.
“I just worried about the blood. There was too much blood. So I just grabbed my belt, went over, lifted her up, put it on and held it,’’ Justino said, referring to his Carhartt belt, which he bought 12 years ago for $20.
“I grabbed a dog leash from a passer-by’’ for the other leg. “I held it until Dr. Oz came over [and] jumped right in there” and adjusted the tourniquets.
Oz, who was headed to a TV shoot in Times Square with a group of medical students, said his first thought was, “That’s a weird-looking tourniquet.
“These guys saved her life,’’ the doctor said of Justino and the pizza-truck owner, Matt Crespo, who was there with his supermodel girlfriend, Heide Lindgren.
The same hot-dog vendor who had sold Green her lunch gave Crespo his ice cooler for the foot.
“She buys a hot dog from my cart and . . . then three or four minutes later, she got hit,’’ said the vendor, Mohamed El Sayed, 34.
“She was in bad shape. I bring some ice and a cooler, and we put the leg in the ice inside the cooler.’’
Crespo — who in February partnered with billionaire T. Boone Pickens for his eco-friendly Neapolitan Express truck — received a kiss from gal pal Lindgren after his efforts.
“I think my boyfriend might be Superman,’’ she later tweeted.
Olivo was not charged.
But Himon has a checkered road record.
He was involved in a crash in 2010, the same year he received his hack license, records show. A person was injured in that incident.
He was cited for improper use of a bus lane that year, too, and fined $50.
Himon also racked up three moving violations the next year and received a total of nine points on his license, as well $415 in fines. Those infractions included running a red light, traveling at 65 mph in a 45-mph zone and making an improper turn.
He did get a two-point reduction from his license once, for taking a defensive-driving course.
Himon was carrying no passengers at the time of yesterday’s crash.
Green’s best pal was crying as she was put into a police car for the ride to Bellevue. They were staying at The Hotel Pennsylvania near Penn Station.
“I’m worried about my friend,’’ she said tearfully.
Justino — asked if he considered himself a hero — just shrugged and said, “It’s just a natural thing to do in the moment if you’re thinking.”
Additional reporting by Jennifer Bain