
Surveillance footage which captured the moment a yellow cab crashed into a Manhattan restaurant on Thursday afternoon, leaving eight people injured, has emerged.

The video shows the taxi mounting the curb and plowing into Westville in Hell's Kitchen shortly after 12.30pm.

A male pedestrian was hit as it smashed into the building and he was flung onto the hood but miraculously, did not suffer serious injuries.

None of the injured suffered serious injuries. Five were taken to the hospital and three refused medical aid.

The driver, who was not injured, told reporters he was rear-ended by another vehicle and that it caused him to mount the curb.

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This is the moment the taxi mounted the curb outside Westville Hell's Kitchen on Thursday lunch time. A male pedestrian who saw it coming was hit but miraculously was not seriously harmed

A pedestrian who was standing outside near the door was hit but miraculously did not suffer any major injuries

The scene from inside the Westville restaurant in Hell's Kitchen after a taxi crashed into it on Thursday

A taxi crashed into Westville, a restaurant in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, on Thursday afternoon

The chaotic scene is shown on Thursday after the incident. Eight people were injured but none have life threatening injuries

Unscathed: The unnamed driver of the car claimed he was hit from behind by another vehicle and that caused him to lose control. He has not been arrested

One of the injured is shown being removed from the scene on a wheelchair. The man lost one of his shoes in the chaos. The driver of the taxi is shown, right, in a red tunic

A New York Times reporter at the scene said the cab had been rear-ended which caused it to mount the curb but that remains unconfirmed by police.

According to witnesses, some saw the vehicle coming and were able to run out of the way before it crashed through the front of the restaurant.

The Fire Department of New York says all of the injured people suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Fire crews remain at the scene along with police.

An NYPD spokesman told DailyMail.com there was little information available.

The crash was reported to its officers at 1.15pm.

A worker at the restaurant who was downstairs when it happened told DailyMail.com they were told to stay downstairs by police.

When firefighters pulled the cab back out of the building, it dragged with it a bicycle which it is thought to have been chained up directly in front of the restaurant.

The taxi took a bicycle with it when it crashed into the restaurant but there was no one on it. Instead, it is thought to have been dragged along from a nearby rack

The fire fighters are shown picking the bicycle out from beneath the car after removing the cab from the restaurant

The scene once the car had been pulled out of the restaurant is shown above. Eight people were injured; five went to hospital and three refused medical treatment

The scene is being cleared by NYPD and FDNY officers. It led to several road closures on Thursday afternoon

Amazingly, the car left no structural damage to the restaurant and the aftermath consisted largely of debris