A woman was struck in the leg by a flying buzzsaw while she was walking past a construction site in New York City overnight. Footage courtesy: Ray and Frank Liquor Store

A WOMAN is in hospital after being hit by a flying buzzsaw on a busy New York street in a scene witnesses described as straight out of a horror movie. Watch the video.

NBC New York reports that a construction team was working to fix a water main on 48th Street and Ninth Avenue in New York when the metre-long buzzsaw flew into the air.

“I hear the blade and see the blade literally coming off the machine,” he said. “It was huge. It looked like it was from a horror flick. I couldn’t believe it,” eyewitness Sean Kuilan said.

Another onlooker, Matthew Bisi, said he was lucky to escape the path of the buzzsaw.

“I was on the right side of the sidewalk, suddenly everyone started yelling ‘Get down! Move!’” he said. “It was just like crazy chaos. People screaming, all the construction workers.

“I just turned, kinda ducked, put my head down,” Mr Bisi said. “Thing came flying right by my head, missed me by that much. You could hear it coming and it went right by me.”

He said the buzzsaw flew about 30 metres before hitting a tree and then the woman.

“It took her right down, gashes on the side of the thigh,” he said. “The force of that coming in was pretty hard.”

The woman hit the ground screaming before being taken to Bellevue Hospital with a large gash on her leg.