Bob Simon, '60 Minutes' correspondent, killed in crash on West Side Highway

[octoberlib]

Bob Simon, a correspondent for "60 Minutes," was killed when the livery cab he was a passenger in crashed on the West Side Highway on Wednesday night, a police source said.

The 73-year-old reporter was a passenger in the livery cab traveling south on 12th Ave. at W. 30 St. when the car rear-ended a Mercedes-Benz driven by a 23-year-old man and then slammed into a median.

Both the driver and Simon had to be cut out of the car, police said.

Simon, 73, was a correspondent for CBS news show "60 Minutes."
The veteran CBS reporter was rushed to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, where he died, a police source

said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bob-simon-60-minutes-correspondent-killed-crash-article-1.2111975

[Lefta Dissenter]

1. That's terrible! (n/t)

[hlthe2b]

2. oh, how tragic...

He seemed like a good guy and a very competent reporter. RIP, sir

[onehandle]

3. Horrible.

Sad.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. That's terrible.

Everyone else not seriously injured. I wonder if he had a seat belt on in the back of the limo.

Sad either way.

[blm]

5. Sad news.

.

[spanone]

6. damn...rip

[bananas]

7. He broke away from the US censors in the first gulf war.

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-11/entertainment/ca-1182_1_gulf-war

On the fifth day of the Persian Gulf War, Simon and a CBS News crew broke away from the heavily controlled government pools of reporters and stepped across a deserted border line between Saudi Arabia and Iraqi-occupied Kuwait.

[bluestateguy]

8. And the msnbc hosts won't stfu about Jon Stewart

Simon, however, was a real journalist.

[villager]

9. Well, shit! After all the other things he's been through, and survived

What a hell of a way to go!

Dammit.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

10. Shocking and sudden loss. RIP Mr. Simon :( nt

[DawgHouse]

11. Oh, that's sad.

[WillyT]

12. Damn...

[JI7]

13. sad news .someone we don't know much about other than his reporting

And i mean that in a positive way. In contrast to celeb/news people like Brian Williams.

[Elwood P Dowd]

14. A Vietnam and Gulf War correspondent.

Was even a POW for a few weeks in Iraq. Unlike Bill "The Liar" O'Lielly, he was a real journalist.

[GGJohn]

19. Or Lying Brian Williams. eom.

[salin]

15. RIP ... how very sad.

in an era where some news media figures are about being sensations ... Simon seemed old school journalism. Get the story (don't be the story, don't create stories to be propaganda.) Condolences to his family, to his friends, and to those his life touched.

[Crabby Appleton]

16. So sad

RIP

[xmas74]

17. How sad.

So few of the old school journalists left.

[Glassunion]

18. Gotta love the media.

Could they get get any more pictures of the twisted wreckage? What no blood on the pavement? Fucking jerks.