Parking attendant Steven Morales was apparently trying to load a black Lexus RX350 into an automobile elevator at the East 76th Street garage when the SUV plunged from the fifth floor of the six-story structure to the ground floor. The elevator car was on the first floor and not on the fifth as Morales had apparently thought.
Angel Rosa, who was in the elevator car at the time of the accident, was also treated for minor injuries.
"It felt like it was a bomb," Rosa told the New York Post. "I felt the impact when the car came down."
Unfortunately for the owner of the Lexus, the SUV didn't exactly escape the incident unscathed. The RX350 had to be dragged out of the elevator shaft upside-down and its front-end is well beyond the threshold of a full write-off.
Photos courtesy of FDNY.
