60 Minutes’ Bob Simon killed in car crash

[Ian Smith son]

Veteran CBS “60 Minutes” correspondent Bob Simon, for more than four decades one of America’s most respected journalists, was killed in a crash Wednesday night after his limo driver lost control of the vehicle on the West Side Highway. The Lincoln Town Car in which Simon, 73, was riding collided with a Mercedes-Benz, then veered across the roadway and plowed into a pedestrian expansion near West 30th Street at about 7 p.m., according to law-enforcement sources.

The driver of the Mercedes said the black car was veering erratically before the crash. “He swerved into me,” said the 23-year-old Mercedes driver. “He hit me and he looked like he lost control of the car.”





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