Fruit stand worker injured in East Side crash grateful to be alive

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    NEW YORK (WCBS) — An outdoor dining spot was leveled after a car crash Friday on the East Side.

Several people were injured in that crash, including one man who believes he could have been killed.

“It comes to my mind that, like, I could’ve died,” Sohaib Annabi told CBS2’s Dave Carlin.

Annabi was in pain and walking slowly Saturday. He was one of the eight people injured Friday morning when a van crashed into a car along Second Avenue at East 50th Street.

An outdoor dining structure was demolished, scaffolding and sign poles came down, and the fruit-and-vegetable stand where Annabi was working was obliterated. Debris stuck him.

“It hit me, like, in the back,” he said.

He shared cell phone video he took moments after he got himself up off the ground.

The video shows the van resting in the very spot he would often stand in to bag customers’ produce.

Two children were also among the injured. All are expected to survive.

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