ATLANTA (CBS46) -
Multiple people including
United Nations Ambassador and former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, were
injured in midtown Atlanta Monday evening after a cement truck
overturned and crushed a car.
Witnesses tell CBS46's Dontaye
Carter, the driver of the cement truck was traveling onto 14th Street NW
from Northside Drive NW when witnesses say he tried to beat a traffic
light when the truck hit a silver Lexus attempting to turn off 14th
street NW.
Cell phone recorded by people nearby show at least 10
people who came to the aid of the man trapped in the Lexus to pull him
out prior to emergency crews arriving on the scene.
Young was
taken to Emory hospital in Midtown only as a precaution. CBS46 was the
only news team to spoke with civil rights icon just minutes after he
walked out of the hospital.
“I stay blessed. I've been walking
away from, the Lord has been walking me away from all kinds of things
for 83 years,” Young told CBS46's Dontaye Carter.
Young says the
x-ray showed he was fine. He says he was on his way to work with some
college students when he was hit by the cement truck.
“He swerved
to miss the car at Hemphill which he didn't, he hit the car at Hemphill
but the weight of the car dumped the whole cement mixer on top of two
cars,” said the former Atlanta mayor.
Young knows what could've
happened Monday when the truck hit the car he was riding in. But he
knows it didn't and continues to focus on the life he can continue to
live.
“Everybody's time comes and I'm not rushing but neither am I
nervous about it. When Martin Luther King died at 39 and I didn't I
just figured that there was a lot of work ahead of me and so I keep
going on until I can't,” said Young.
No word yet on the condition
of the driver in the silver Lexus. CBS46 has learned he was alert, aware
and moving his arms and legs before he left the scene. The driver of
the cement truck has been cited for is obeying a traffic control device
and too fast for conditions.
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