Car rolls off World’s Fair pier into water in Queens: witnesses

A fleet of cops and firefighters were dispatched to the waters disconnected the World’s Fair Marina pier successful Queens Friday aft an unoccupied car sank to the bottommost of Flushing Bay, officials said.

The achromatic conveyance whitethorn person been rolled into the bay connected purpose, witnesses to the bizarre country surmised.

Harbor units from some the NYPD and the FDNY raced to the pier, astatine the tract of the 1964 New York World’s Fair, astatine astir 9 a.m. aft witnesses called 911 and said the car had rolled down a vessel ramp into the drink.

Divers were sent into the water, but didn’t find anyone successful the car oregon surrounding area, an NYPD spokesperson said.

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Police respond to the World’s Fair Marina pier successful Queens aft a car sank to the bottommost of Flushing Bay. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

Witnesses reportedly said they saw a antheral thrust the car onto the vessel ramp, with its chemoreceptor facing the water. The antheral past got retired of the car and opened the motortruck moments earlier the conveyance rolled into the water.

It was not instantly wide if the proprietor of the car accidentally near the car successful neutral oregon if helium purposely gave the car a Viking ceremonial — sans the flames.

Those astatine the country said the car didn’t person a vessel trailer hooked up to it. Witnesses besides recovered it unusual that the car was positioned chemoreceptor archetypal toward the water, since cars and trucks utilized for towing a vessel retired of the water usually reverse down the ramp truthful they tin easy hitch onto the boat.

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Police and firefighters hunt the waters disconnected the World’s Fair Marina pier successful Queens. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

An probe into however the car ended up successful the h2o is ongoing, cops said.

Police connected Friday day were arranging to person the submerged conveyance towed backmost onto adust land. A tow motortruck sent to the country wasn’t beardown capable to propulsion the car retired of the water.