Car crashes into July Fourth barbecue, killing two and injuring seven more, in Lower East Side park

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Four people were critically injured and two others were hospitalized after a pickup truck slammed into them as they barbecued in a Lower East Side park on the Fourth of July, officials and sources said.

The driver of the silver pickup truck mounted a curb and careened into Corlears Hook Park on the corner of Water St. and Jackson St. just after 8:55 p.m., they added.

Firefighters and police respond after multiple people were struck by a pickup truck inside Corlears Hook Park in Manhattan, New York City on Thursday, July 4 2024. (Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily News)

FDNY members arrived on the scene and extracted at least four people who were pinned by the truck.

Medics rushed the critically injured people to New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital.

They took two other people to Bellevue Hospital,f where they were expected to survive.

Cops took a suspect into custody, police sources said.

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