Seven injured after New York taxi plows into curb outside Macy's on Christmas Day

Seven people were injured in New York City on Christmas Day when a taxi jumped the curb and hit pedestrians outside a Macy's store after the taxi driver suffered a medical emergency, police said.

The incident took place in Midtown Manhattan near the Macy's department store in Herald Square, near the corner of West 34th Street and Avenue of the Americas, or Sixth Avenue.

Photos of the cab showed a wrecked car with broken parts and dents everywhere. The store, with its elaborately decorated windows, is a magnet for tourists and New Yorkers during the holidays.

Apart from the 58-year-old taxi driver, the injured included a nine-year-old boy, two women aged 49 and four other women aged 19, 37 and 41, police said.

A 49-year-old woman with a leg injury, a 9-year-old boy with cuts and a 41-year-old woman with a head injury were taken to the hospital, police said.

The remaining three pedestrians refused attention. All injuries were non-life threatening.