A woman was rushed to St. Vincent’s hospital late last month with multiple injuries after a violent hit-and-run accident at the crowded intersection of Broadway and Canal Street.

Witnesses said a man driving a black Honda CR-V east on Canal Street blew through the intersection at Broadway and slammed into a Lincoln Town Car before attempting to flee the scene south on Broadway around 5:30 p.m., June 25.

The force of the collision sent the Town Car careening into the crosswalk, striking an unidentified woman who was crossing Canal Street from the southwest corner of the intersection.

Police and the hospital would not release the name of the woman or her condition. Severe cuts and bruises were visible to her head, back, arms and legs. A witness said he saw her fly into the air on impact. She lay on the pavement nearly halfway across Canal Street from where the Town Car had come to a stop.

A crowd surrounded the woman as she lay barefoot in the road, shielding her from oncoming traffic until paramedics arrived several minutes later.

The driver, identified as Guillermo Lawson, 56, of Roselle, NJ, was arrested following the incident. He had made it about halfway down the block, between Canal and Walker Streets, before getting stuck in Broadway traffic. A group of men, shouting, caught up to his car, opened his door and pulled him out, detaining him until police arrived. Lawson admitted he had been drinking earlier that day, according to court documents.

“At first, it looked like [the victim] was dead,” said one witness, who was standing on the opposite corner, across Broadway, at the time of the incident.

He said he watched as the driver tried to get away down Broadway.

“But like 40 people came after him,” he said.