A heroic husband pushed his wife to safety as a car barreled toward them and other pedestrians in a crowded commercial area in The Bronx yesterday afternoon, the woman and a witness said.
“My husband pushed me out of the way,” grateful, shaken spouse Francis Wright, 46, told The Post outside Lincoln Hospital, where her husband was still recovering from the broken leg he received in the likely lifesaving maneuver.
Wright herself needed five stitches to her leg after the terrifying accident.
“He hit a car first, then he hit the wall, then he hit us,’’ she said of the elderly driver, who struck them and two other people.
All of the injured suffered non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.
Authorities said the 85-year-old driver lost control of his vehicle for an unknown reason on East 149 Street and Bergen Avenue, in the area of the South Bronx known as the Hub, at around 12:50 p.m.
“The car was coming. He tried to stop, but the brakes didn’t stop. He swerved,” a witness told The Post.
That’s when Wright’s husband pushed her out of the way of the speeding car, the man said.
“She fell to the floor hard,” said the witness, who declined to give his name.
“The car swerved and hit a Con Ed truck.
“Like a pinball machine, he bounced back and went into the building.
“There was a hole in the building.”
No criminality is suspected in the accident, and the driver has not been charged, cops said.