Veteran CBS Newsman & Bronx Native Bob Simon Remembered
By NY1 News Thursday, February 12, 2015
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Longtime CBS News correspondent Bob Simon is being remembered as a giant of broadcast journalism following his death in a car crash in Manhattan Wednesday night.
Police say Simon was riding in a livery cab going south on the West Side Highway around 6:30 p.m. when it hit a Mercedes that was stopped at a red light at 30th Street.
The cab then crashed into the metal barriers that separate traffic.
Simon was pronounced dead at the hospital.
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