[TChad]

Simon was riding in the backseat of a livery cab around 6:45 p.m. Wednesday on New York City's West Side Highway when the car rear-ended another vehicle and crashed into barriers separating north- and southbound traffic...

It looks more like the front of the car hit an IED.

[matt04]

Either it was a really, really bad wreck or they used the jaws on his cab. Hard to tell from that pic.