When are they ever going to fix this?
Another car crashed today zooming off the 59th Street Bridge ramp that leads to Queens Plaza South and Crescent Street, which was the scene of two deadly crashes just over a year ago.
The car, a taxi, flew off the ramp and smashed into some scaffolding in front of a row of shops at 4:52 p.m., said cops. The cabbie refused medical attention.
“I saw it coming straight for me! I just ran,” said deli worker Preet Singh, 25.
“I wouldn’t be standing there. It’s like a death zone,” said Wilfredo Carbajal, 43, a super at a nearby building who recalled three other crashes at the site since early last year.
A pedestrian died in March 2011 when a Volkswagen Rabbit failed to make the right-hand curve coming off the ramp.
Nine days later, on April 6, a passenger in a Volkswagen Jetta died when the car came off the ramp, allegedly at a high speed, and crashed in the same spot.
The third crash occurred later last year, said Scott Agulnick, a lawyer for two businesses forced to close because of the damage from the crashes.
Agulnick, who represents the shuttered Villa de Beaute Hair Salon and Espinal Caribbean Restaurant II, said yesterday’s crash further proves that the traffic pattern on the ramp is badly designed.
“It’s fortunate no one was injured,” Agulnick said of yesterday’s crash — adding that the latest accident makes it even less likely his clients will try to reopen their businesses.
The city has tried to improve the intersection over the last year, by adding new signs, rumble strips, flashing lights and reflective tape, officials said.