Anatomy Of A Broken Foot
May 8, 2007 (Memo from Bill Keller to NYT staff: Jill Abramson was in an accident)
Jill Abramson was involved in a traffic accident this morning, and is in the emergency ward at Bellevue Hospital. She is conscious (in fact, she managed to be both funny and stoic through her morphine haze, so the essential Jill seems to be intact) but she has a badly broken leg and is being checked for other injuries…Will keep you posted.
May 9, 2007: (NYP: Page Six update, “no one did anything illegal“)
These are trying times for New York Times Managing Editor Jill Abramson. The highest-ranking woman in the Times’ newsroom, she was rushed to Bellevue Hospital after a private sanitation truck ran over her foot in Midtown yesterday morning. She was crossing at the intersection of West 54th Street and Seventh Avenue just as the garbage hauler was making a right turn. Cops tell us no one did anything illegal and the driver won’t be charged.
May 22, 2007: (NY Sun: “Times Editor Sues Truck Driver Over Broken Foot“)
A managing editor of the New York Times, Jill Abramson, is suing a Pennsylvania truck driver, alleging he ran her over on May 8 at the intersection of Seventh Avenue and 44th Street…She is seeking unspecified damages in State Supreme Court in Manhattan from the driver, Oscar Ernesto Lara. The suit also names a Bronx food distributor operating the truck, West Side Foods, and the truck’s registered owner, MTLR Corp. It accuses them of “negligence, carelessness, and recklessness,” causing her “to suffer severe and serious personal injuries to mind and body,” and “great physical pain and mental anguish.”
Granted, we can (sort of) see suing the driver* but seriously, West Side Foods? MTLR Corp.?? Guess that morphine haze is finally starting to wear off…
*Sorry, Oscar.